US lawyer uses ChatGPT to cite fake legal cases: Judge imposes fine; warns ChatGPT can write a story, but…
A bankruptcy lawyer in the US has been fined after using ChatGPT to cite fake legal cases in court. According to a PCGamer report, Thomas Nield, an attorney from Semrad Law Firm, was found to have submitted four fabricated case citations while representing a client in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy case. As per the report, the matter came to light when Judge Michael Slade reviewed Nield’s filings and spotted multiple inconsistencies. “In sum, what happened here is that Mr Nield cited four cases for a proposition of law, but none of them exist as alleged in his brief,” the judge said.
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