A lawyer used ChatGPT for legal research, but later found the chatbot created fake cases

stapp · May 28, 2023

In a recent court case, a lawyer relied on ChatGPT for legal research, resulting in the submission of false information.
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The case revolved around a man suing an airline over an alleged personal injury. The plaintiff's legal team submitted a brief citing several previous court cases to support their argument, seeking to establish a legal precedent for their claim. However, the airline's lawyers discovered that some of the referenced cases did not exist and promptly alerted the presiding judge.
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https://www.neowin.net/news/a-lawye...t-later-found-the-chatbot-created-fake-cases/

So basically, AI lies just the same as humans do.

ronjor · May 30, 2023

OpenAI isn’t doing enough to make ChatGPT’s limitations clear

By James Vincent May 30, 2023
Users deserve blame for not heeding warnings, but OpenAI should be doing more to make it clear that ChatGPT can’t reliably distinguish fact from fiction.
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stapp · Jun 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM

Lawyers could face ‘severe’ penalties for fake AI-generated citations, UK court warns

The High Court of England and Wales says lawyers need to take stronger steps to prevent the misuse of artificial intelligence in their work.
In a ruling tying together two recent cases, Judge Victoria Sharp wrote that generative AI tools like ChatGPT “are not capable of conducting reliable legal research.”
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/07/l...r-fake-ai-generated-citations-uk-court-warns/

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