Summary: Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused

They file a brief that cites cases fabricated by ChatGPT.

Then, when challenged on those documents, they doubled down—they asked ChatGPT if the cases were real, and ChatGPT said yes.

At some point, they asked ChatGPT to confirm that the cases were real… and ChatGPT said that they were.

Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused

Legal Twitter is having tremendous fun right now reviewing the latest documents from the case Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (1:22-cv-01461).

The TLDR version

A lawyer asked ChatGPT for examples of cases that supported an argument they were trying to make.

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