ChatGPT Causes Controversy Among Lawyers with Bogus Briefs and Made Up Citations

A Manhattan judge scolded a personal injury lawyer for using ChatGPT to generate a legal brief full of fake cases. The lawyer claimed that he was "duped" by the AI and thought he was using a "super search engine." The judge expressed concern about what happened after the fake cases were cited and will issue a written decision on whether to sanction the lawyer. ChatGPT is an emerging AI technology that operates like a chatbot and can generate detailed answers in seconds, but its answers are often inaccuracies.