<story><title>Two US lawyers fined for submitting fake court citations from ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/23/two-us-lawyers-fined-submitting-fake-court-citations-chatgpt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jeroenhd</author><text>LegalEagle did a video on this case two weeks ago, digging into it in some more depth: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;oqSYljRYDEM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;oqSYljRYDEM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They lied to a judge, doubled down, showed further incompetence by admitting to not knowing how the legal reference they supposedly quoted was even structured, then lied to a judge again trying to get more time to get their story straight, and all it cost them was $5000? And even then they have the guts to say they disagree with the judge?&lt;p&gt;Levidow, Levidow &amp;amp; Oberman must either be run by fools or take the rest of the world for fools.&lt;p&gt;I can understand how the rubber stamping lawyer signing all the paperwork got off easy; he was just signing documents because the lawyer who supposedly did all the work for the case couldn&amp;#x27;t operate in the court the case was transfered to.&lt;p&gt;The other lawyer, the one who did the AI equivalent from copy pasting from the summary page of Google, should not be deemed fit to practice law.</text></comment>
<story><title>Two US lawyers fined for submitting fake court citations from ChatGPT</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/23/two-us-lawyers-fined-submitting-fake-court-citations-chatgpt</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>isp</author><text>Related:&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT&amp;quot; (27 days ago, 139 comments): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36095352&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36095352&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Lawyer who used ChatGPT faces penalty for made up citations&amp;quot; (15 days ago, 128 comments): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36242462&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36242462&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law&amp;quot; (14 days ago, 175 comments): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36257545&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=36257545&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Original court documents: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.courtlistener.com&amp;#x2F;docket&amp;#x2F;63107798&amp;#x2F;mata-v-avianca-inc&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.courtlistener.com&amp;#x2F;docket&amp;#x2F;63107798&amp;#x2F;mata-v-avianca...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The full document from the federal judge on sanctions: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;storage.courtlistener.com&amp;#x2F;recap&amp;#x2F;gov.uscourts.nysd.575368&amp;#x2F;gov.uscourts.nysd.575368.54.0_5.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;storage.courtlistener.com&amp;#x2F;recap&amp;#x2F;gov.uscourts.nysd.57...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of many highlights: dismissing the lawyer&amp;#x27;s bad-faith argument with a footnote quoting Alice in Wonderland (footnote 12, page 18).</text></comment>