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NYC lawyer admits he used ChatGPT to file ‘bogus’ court documents
Kamaji:
NYC lawyer admits he used ChatGPT to file ‘bogus’ court documents
By Jesse O’Neill
May 30, 2023
A lawyer at a respected Tribeca firm admitted citing several “bogus” lawsuits he claimed bolstered his case — because he used an artificial intelligence chatbot to help write the Manhattan federal court filing.
The shocking admission from Steven Schwartz, an attorney with firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, came after he asked ChatGPT to find cases relevant to his client’s lawsuit — only for the bot to fabricate them entirely, court documents show.
The snafu began after Schwartz’s legal partner Paul LoDuca filed a lawsuit against the Colombian airline Avianca on behalf of Robert Mata, who was allegedly injured when a metal serving cart struck his knee on a flight to New York City.
When the airline’s lawyers asked the court to toss the suit, Schwartz filed a brief that supposedly cited more than a half dozen relevant cases.
There was just one problem: the cases — such as Miller v. United Airlines, Petersen v. Iran Air and Varghese v. China Southern Airlines — were completely made up by ChatGPT.
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/05/30/steven-schwartz-admits-he-used-chatgpt-to-file-bogus-court-doc/
DB:
I wonder if this journalist knows what "snafu" means?
The_Reader_David:
Which suggests a guard-rail for text-based AI: all assertions of fact made by an AI program must be accompanied by what used to be called "textual apparatus": footnotes (or endnotes) and a bibliography of sources.
Smokin Joe:
--- Quote from: The_Reader_David on May 31, 2023, 03:43:47 am ---Which suggests a guard-rail for text-based AI: all assertions of fact made by an AI program must be accompanied by what used to be called "textual apparatus": footnotes (or endnotes) and a bibliography of sources.
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The AI will just make them up, too....
The_Reader_David:
--- Quote from: Smokin Joe on May 31, 2023, 03:48:43 am ---The AI will just make them up, too....
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No, that's the point. The programming and training of the AI has to be designed so that only actual sources can be cited.
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