Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from
ChatGPT.
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Steven Schwartz used program to 'supplement' his work for a 10-page submission to the Manhattan federal court.
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A New York lawyer has been forced to admit he used the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to carry out legal research after it
referenced several made-up court cases.
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Steven Schwartz, who works for Levidow, Levidow and Oberman, is on a
team representing airline passenger Roberto Mata who is suing the firm Avianca for injuries suffered when a serving cart hit his knee during a flight from El Salvador to JFK airport in New York in 2019.
Mr Schwartz used the AI program to "supplement" his research for a
10-page submission to the Manhattan federal court outlining why his
client's case should not be thrown out.
The legal brief, submitted in March, cited six previous cases dated from
1999 to 2019 to bolster his argument for why the case should be heard
despite the statute of limitations having expired. But neither the
airline's lawyers nor the judge could find the decisions or quotations summarised in the brief. [continues]
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- and so the nightmare begins...
Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from
ChatGPT.
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Steven Schwartz used program to 'supplement' his work for a 10-page submission to the Manhattan federal court.
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A New York lawyer has been forced to admit he used the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to carry out legal research after it
referenced several made-up court cases.
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Steven Schwartz, who works for Levidow, Levidow and Oberman, is on a
team representing airline passenger Roberto Mata who is suing the firm Avianca for injuries suffered when a serving cart hit his knee during a flight from El Salvador to JFK airport in New York in 2019.
Mr Schwartz used the AI program to "supplement" his research for a
10-page submission to the Manhattan federal court outlining why his
client's case should not be thrown out.
The legal brief, submitted in March, cited six previous cases dated from
1999 to 2019 to bolster his argument for why the case should be heard
despite the statute of limitations having expired. But neither the
airline's lawyers nor the judge could find the decisions or quotations summarised in the brief. [continues]
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On Sun, 28 May 2023 06:17:15 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from ChatGPT.
Poor example of "don't trust, do verify".
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Steven Schwartz used program to 'supplement' his work for a 10-page submission to the Manhattan federal court.
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A New York lawyer has been forced to admit he used the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to carry out legal research after it
referenced several made-up court cases.
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Steven Schwartz, who works for Levidow, Levidow and Oberman, is on a
team representing airline passenger Roberto Mata who is suing the firm Avianca for injuries suffered whe
vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> wrote:up-cases/>
On Sun, 28 May 2023 06:17:15 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
Lawyer admits using AI for research after citing 'bogus' cases from
ChatGPT.
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Poor example of "don't trust, do verify".Hence my earlier (unchallenged) point that ChatGPT does not provide citations.
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Steven Schwartz used program to 'supplement' his work for a 10-page
submission to the Manhattan federal court.
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A New York lawyer has been forced to admit he used the artificial
intelligence tool ChatGPT to carry out legal research after it
referenced several made-up court cases.
---
Steven Schwartz, who works for Levidow, Levidow and Oberman, is on a
team representing airline passenger Roberto Mata who is suing the
firm Avianca for injuries suffered when a serving cart hit his knee
during a flight from El Salvador to JFK airport in New York in 2019.
Mr Schwartz used the AI program to "supplement" his research for a
10-page submission to the Manhattan federal court outlining why his
client's case should not be thrown out.
The legal brief, submitted in March, cited six previous cases dated
from 1999 to 2019 to bolster his argument for why the case should be
heard despite the statute of limitations having expired. But neither
the airline's lawyers nor the judge could find the decisions or
quotations summarised in the brief. [continues]
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<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/27/lawyer-chatgpt-
up-cases/>
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- and so the nightmare begins...
It (the nightmare) been around for at over a year.
There's talk about the licenses for code (or text) that these gadgets
auto-generate, since they might take snippets of code (or text) right
off the net. But on the other hand: sometimes they just make up stuff
that sounds plausible.
Another example: mrs. vallor got it to generate a story about a rabbit,
then googled the resulting text. She found similiar text online, and
thought she'd found evidence of potential plagiarism -- but it was
dated *after* ChatGPT's cutoff date.
We figured that they might be using ChatGPT to write those children's
stories and post them to the web.
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