NYC judge scolds lawyer for using ChatGPT to write brief full of ‘legal gibberish’; attorney swears robot ‘duped’ him

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge scolded a pair of personal injury lawyers on Thursday for using ChatGPT to whip up a legal brief chock-full of fake cases — with the lawyer who relied on the tech swearing it was a humiliating mistake and that he’d been “duped” by A.I. Steven Schwartz, an attorney with the law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, used the automatic search engine to whip up arguments against Colombian airline Avianca in a March 1 filing. In arguing that the court shouldn’t toss his client Roberto Mata’s lawsuit against the company, which demands compensation for an injury he suffered on...