US EditionAnother Lawyer Punished for Citing ChatGPT-Created Nonexistent Cases
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Hallucinated Citations in Brief Filed by Assistant County Attorney
From a Minnesota Tax Court decision Thursday, Delano Crossing 2016 v. County of Wright (Chief Judge Jane N. Bowman and Judges Bradford S. Delapena and Beverly J. Luther Quast): In support of a motion for summary judgment, which the court denies in a concurrent order, the County submitted a brief that included five case citations generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI); none of the five citations referred to an actual judicial decision. Indeed,…
A lawyer referred to a non-existing case in a court application, for which the court obliged him to make payments.
A lawyer gets sanctions for using ChatGPT that produced false quotes on a court file The table questions the relevance of the use of such tools for software engineeringLast month, a young graduate of a law school lost his job after using ChatGPT to help him write a court file that turned out to be full of errors: many erroneous quotes as well as at least one non-existent case in legal databases...
Utah Lawyer Sanctioned For Filing Legal Brief With Fake ChatGPT-Generated Court Case Citations - TheNigeriaLawyer
A Utah-based lawyer has been sanctioned by the state’s Court of Appeals after he filed a legal brief containing citations to a nonexistent court case generated by artificial intelligence. According to court documents reported by ABC4, the Court of Appeals found that attorney Richard Bednar submitted a petition that included “fabricated legal authority” obtained from ChatGPT. The filing referenced a case titled Royer v Nelson—a citation that, upo…
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