Two lawyers in New York have been convicted of using a false case generated by ChatGPT and fined $5000

CTOnews.com June 26, Reuters reported that Manhattan District Judge P. Kevin Castel recently decided to order lawyers Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca and their law firms Levidow and Levidow& Oberman to pay a total of $5000.(CTOnews.com note: currently about 36000 yuan), on the grounds that the two lawyers cited six fictitious cases generated by ChatGPT in a brief lawsuit previously filed with the court.

Judge Pexels found that the lawyers acted maliciously and made "conscious avoidance and false and misleading statements." Levidow and Levidow& Oberman said in a statement that their lawyers disagreed with the court's view that they "acted in bad faith":"We made a good faith mistake in not believing that a technology could completely fabricate a case." "

In the sanction order, the judge said that lawyers 'use of artificial intelligence to "provide assistance" was not "inherently improper," but that the lawyer ethics rules "imposed a check on lawyers to ensure the accuracy of their submissions. The judge also said lawyers "continued to support these false opinions" after courts and airlines challenged whether they existed.

CTOnews.com previously reported that the two men had previously acted as lawyers for a man suing the airline for personal injuries, and six cases fabricated by ChatGPT appeared in the lawsuit filed with the court. One of the lawyers, Steven Schwartz, admitted to using ChatGPT to search for similar legal precedents, saying he had never used AI to search legal literature before and didn't know its content might be false.