Judge sanctions lawyers whose A.I.-written filing contained fake citations

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The lawyers were ordered to pay $5,000 by a New York federal judge after admitting the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool was used to create a legal brief.

Judge P. Kevin Castel said that the attorneys, Peter LoDuca and Steven Schwartz, "abandoned their responsibilities" when they submitted the A.I.-written brief, and "then continued to stand by the fake opinions after judicial orders called their existence into question."

Castel said he might not have punished them if attorneys if they had come "clean" about using ChatGPT to find the purported cases the A.I. cited.

 

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