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• @d_feldman Daniel Feldman on x

  A lawyer used ChatGPT to do “legal research” and cited a number of nonexistent cases in a filing, and is now in a lot of trouble with the judge 🤣 [image]

• @questauthority Mike Dunford on x

  Hey, lawtwitter - Check out the last few entries on this docket. Trust me. ChatGPT making up citations, notary fraud, this has it all. Oh and an incandescent federal judge. https://www.courtlistener.com/ ...

• @simonw Simon Willison on x

  I tried to pull together the various strands of this wild ChatGPT legal story - including a detailed timeline and the juiciest screenshots from the filings so far https://simonwillison.net/...

• @jamessurowiecki James Surowiecki on x

  Lawyer asked Chat GPT to find cases he could cite in a brief. It invented six decisions, including quotes and internal citations from the imaginary opinions, and when asked if they were real, said yes. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @mccannsportslaw Michael McCann on x

  A lawyer used ChatGPT and submitted a brief citing fake cases, with bogus quotes, that ChatGPT assured him were all real. He faces discipline from the bar and, I imagine, a malpractice lawsuit. Note to my students: do not become that kind of lawyer! https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @drorpoleg Dror Poleg on x

  AI will make idiots dumber. https://twitter.com/...

• @jeffjarvis @jeffjarvis on x

  To read the documents—the lawyer's original filing, the opponent's letter looking for fake cases, the judge's demand for documentation, the case files ChatGPT made up, the lawyer's uh-oh confession, the angry judge setting a hearing, it's all here: https://www.courtlistener.com/ …

• @simonw Simon Willison on x

  I dug through the various court filings and tried to pull together my own timeline of how this all played out - it's a fascinating story https://simonwillison.net/...

• @mbanzi Massimo Banzi on x

  Epic: A Lawyer in New York used ChatGPT to write a sumbission and the AI made up a bunch of non existent cases to support it.. The Judge wasn't impressed. When caught he had to admit using ChatGPT oops https://www.courtlistener.com/ ...

• @mattmcgee Matt McGee on x

  I wonder how soon until a real estate agent faces discipline because the property description written by ChatGPT...or the blog post...or the email...has bogus claims/info? https://twitter.com/...

• @greg_johnston @greg_johnston on x

  Always remember: ChatGPT, Bard, etc. will simply make things up with incredible confidence. They do not “know” if the things they are saying are true or not, because they do not “know” anything. They're great at composing prose; they're very bad at facts. https://twitter.com/...

• @jackiebarbosa Jackie Barbosa on x

  ChatGPT is not a research assistant. It doesn't check its answers against known facts because it can't “know” which text it has been fed is fact and which is fiction. It therefore makes up “citations” based on probability and you will never get anything remotely resembling facts.…

• @stevepuiszis Steve Puiszis on x

  A lawyer's duty of competence requires understanding the risks and benefits of the technology used to provide legal services. One of ChatGPT's risks is that it makes mistakes and sources that don't exist. It's output must be thoroughly checked. Here's what can happen if you don't…

• @mostring Morgan L. Stringer on x

  I cannot believe a lawyer used ChatGPT and just copied and pasted without verifying anything. The cases it gave were fake. Imagine screwing up so bad that the New York Times writes about it lmao. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @martinsfp @martinsfp on x

  Oh. My. God. “Mr. Schwartz said that he had never used ChatGPT, and ‘therefore was unaware of the possibility that its content could be false.’” https://twitter.com/...

• @sushantsinha Sushant Sinha on x

  When a lawyer used ChatGPT: “Judge Castel said in an order that he had been presented with “an unprecedented circumstance,” a legal submission replete with “bogus judicial decisions, with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations.” ” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @mediadarwin Jim Meskauskas on x

  I love this. It's the George Santos of legal assistants. “There was just one hitch: No one... could find the decisions or the quotations cited and summarized in the brief. “That was because ChatGPT had invented everything.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @gi_dalor Gi Dalor on x

  @questauthority I love that ChatGPT just keeps doubling down like a human compulsive liar would. [image]

• @glimmerstomp @glimmerstomp on x

  grabbed the funniest bit of that legal case where someone used ChatGPT to write a brief [image]

• @bmb_esq Brodie Butland on x

  Lawyer uses ChatGPT to prepare a legal brief in federal court. ChatGPT makes up non-existent cases and gets others completely wrong. Federal judge is incensed and scheduled a sanctions hearing. I anticipate we're going to see quite a few of these in the next few years. https://tw…

• @legalwritingpro Ross Guberman on x

  Tomorrow's litigator today? Imagine if I asked ChatGPT to analyze and critique a section of a brief and to perform legal and factual research. https://www.buzzsprout.com/... 1/3 [image]

• @realgenekim Gene Kim on x

  Oof. All of the half -dozen case citations in the 10 page brief that a lawyer filed were untrue ("hallucinations") A Man Sued Avianca Airline. His Lawyer Used ChatGPT. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @crimegiri @crimegiri on x

  This lawyer got ChatGPT to write the submissions (plainly nonsense) and in doing so, it fabricated authority citations. When the (angry) Judge requested the cases, the lawyer went back and got ChatGPT to FABRICATE THE CASES. Someone is going to jail.... 👀 https://twitter.com/...

• @scottmonty Scott Monty on x

  Be careful out there. ChatGPT isn't ready for prime time. “No one — not the airline's lawyers, not even the judge himself — could find the decisions or the quotations cited and summarized in the brief. That was because ChatGPT had invented everything.” https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @benweisernyt Benjamin Weiser on x

  BREAKING: A lawyer representing a man who sued an airline relied on #ChatGPT to help prepare a court brief. It did not go well. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @amysalyzyn Amy Salyzyn on x

  1st of many/some? “The lawyer's colleague, who drafted the filing, says he relied on ChatGPT to draft filing & provide the text of the cases & neglected to check them” A Lawyer's Filing “Is Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases”;Thanks, ChatGPT? https://reason.com/...