A judge is deciding whether to sanction two lawyers who blamed ChatGPT for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing.
NEW YORK — Two apologetic lawyers responding to an angry judge in Manhattan federal court blamedAttorneys Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca are facing possible punishment over a filing in a lawsuit against an airline that included references to past court cases that Schwartz thought were real, but were actually invented by the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.
Judge Castel seemed both baffled and disturbed at the unusual occurrence and disappointed the lawyers did not act quickly to correct the bogus legal citations when they were first alerted to the problem by Avianca's lawyers and the court. Avianca pointed out the bogus case law in a March filing. He added that he had suffered personally and professionally as a result of the blunder and felt "embarrassed, humiliated and extremely remorseful."
After the judge read aloud portions of one cited case to show how easily it was to discern that it was "gibberish," LoDuca said: "It never dawned on me that this was a bogus case."Ronald Minkoff, an attorney for the law firm, told the judge that the submission "resulted from carelessness, not bad faith" and should not result in sanctions.
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