Lawyer uses ChatGPT in court and now 'greatly regrets' it
A New York attorney has been blasted for using ChatGPT for legal research as part of a lawsuit against a Columbian airline.
Steven Schwartz, an attorney with New York law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, was engaged by Robert Mata to pursue an injury claim against Avianca Airlines.
Mata claims he sustained the injury from a serving cart during his flight with the airline in 2019, according to a May 28 report from CNN Business.
However, after a judge noticed inconsistencies and factual errors in the case documentation, Schwartz has now admitted to using ChatGPT for his legal research, according to a May 24 sworn affidavit.
He claims that this was his first time using ChatGPT for legal research and “was unaware of the possibility that its content could be false.”
In an April 5 court filing, the judge presiding over the case stated:
The judge further claimed that certain cases referenced in the submissions did not actually exist, and there was an instance where a docket number on a filing was mixed up with another court filing.
Schwartz said he also regrets having trusted the artificial chatbot without conducting his own due diligence. The affidavit noted:
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In recent times there has been an ongoing debate regarding the extent to which ChatGPT can be integrated into workforces.
However, reports indicate that the intelligence levels of ChatGPT is rapidly advancing.
However, developers are skeptical over whether it does in fact have the potential to replace humans completely.
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