Lawyer sanctioned for using ChatGPT to fabricate court citations.
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A New York lawyer is facing potential sanctions after using OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, to write a legal brief that included fake citations. The lawyer claims he was unaware that the content could be false and had asked the program if the cases it cited were real. The judge overseeing the case has ordered a hearing to discuss potential sanctions for the "unprecedented circumstance" created by the lawyer's actions.
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