A federal judge has imposed $5,000 fines on a group of lawyers after ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research to support an aviation injury claim.
“Oh, we’re so sorry! We just couldn’t imagine a tool created to make shit up would actually make shit up instead of quoting verbatim ]judicial precedent/case law/whatever jargon]! Also we accidentally lied and unintentionally refused to perform our actual roles as required by, y’know, normal procedure and/or law like a real law firm with real lawyers in it. Whoopsy! Totally cool, though, right?”
“Oh, we’re so sorry! We just couldn’t imagine a tool created to make shit up would actually make shit up instead of quoting verbatim ]judicial precedent/case law/whatever jargon]! Also we accidentally lied and unintentionally refused to perform our actual roles as required by, y’know, normal procedure and/or law like a real law firm with real lawyers in it. Whoopsy! Totally cool, though, right?”