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    Two lawyers are facing possible punishment after including fabricated legal cases from ChatGPT in a court filing. One lawyer used ChatGPT to find precedents for an airline injury case but some of the cases ChatGPT suggested were not real or involved fictional airlines. The lawyer apologized and said he did not realize ChatGPT could fabricate cases. While his firm argued it was due to carelessness not bad faith, a law professor said the case highlights the risks of using AI technologies without understanding their limitations. The judge will decide on possible punishments later.

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    Two lawyers are facing possible punishment after including fabricated legal cases from ChatGPT in a court filing. One lawyer used ChatGPT to find precedents for an airline injury case but some of the cases ChatGPT suggested were not real or involved fictional airlines. The lawyer apologized and said he did not realize ChatGPT could fabricate cases. While his firm argued it was due to carelessness not bad faith, a law professor said the case highlights the risks of using AI technologies without understanding their limitations. The judge will decide on possible punishments later.

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    Two lawyers are facing possible punishment after including fabricated legal cases from ChatGPT in a court filing. One lawyer used ChatGPT to find precedents for an airline injury case but some of the cases ChatGPT suggested were not real or involved fictional airlines. The lawyer apologized and said he did not realize ChatGPT could fabricate cases. While his firm argued it was due to carelessness not bad faith, a law professor said the case highlights the risks of using AI technologies without understanding their limitations. The judge will decide on possible punishments later.

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    Lawyers Blame ChatGPT for Courtroom Error

    Two lawyers responding to an angry judge in a New York court blamed ChatGPT for tricking them into
    including fictitious legal research in a court filing.

    Attorneys Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca are facing possible punishment over a filing in a lawsuit
    against an airline that included references to past court cases that Schwartz thought were real, but
    were actually invented by the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.

    Schwartz explained that he used the program as he looked for legal precedents supporting a client's
    case against the Colombian airline Avianca for an injury that happened on a 2019 flight.

    The chatbot, which has fascinated the world with its ability to answer prompts from users, suggested
    several cases that Schwartz hadn't been able to find through usual methods used at his law firm.
    The problem was, several of those cases weren't real or involved airlines that didn't exist.

    "I did not comprehend that ChatGPT could fabricate cases," Schwartz said. "I would like to sincerely
    apologize," he added.
    He said that he had suffered personally and professionally as a result and felt "embarrassed, humiliated
    and extremely remorseful.“

    He said that he and the firm where he worked had put safeguards in place to ensure nothing similar
    happens again.

    Ronald Minkoff, an attorney for the law firm, told the judge that the submission was caused by
    "carelessness, not bad faith" and should not result in punishment.

    "Mr. Schwartz, someone who barely does federal research, chose to use this new technology. He thought
    he was dealing with a standard search engine," Minkoff said. "What he was doing was playing with live
    ammo.“

    Daniel Shin, an adjunct professor at the Center for Legal and Court Technology at William & Mary Law
    School, said that this is the first time that something like this has happened. He added that this case
    "highlights the dangers of using promising AI technologies without knowing the risks.“

    The judge said he'll rule on punishments at a later date.

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