Attorney in Hot Water for Using Fake Court Citations Generated by Chatbot

An attorney named Schwartz used a chatbot called ChatGPT to research cases for a legal brief and was found to have submitted fake court citations.

28 May 2023 · 21:29 UTC

These fake citations were generated by ChatGPT and the attorney did not confirm the authenticity of the information.

As a result, the judge in the case is considering sanctioning the attorney for using a false and fraudulent notarization.

The attorney has since apologized and admitted fault for not verifying the information from the chatbot.