Steven Schwartz, who used ChatGPT to write a legal brief, is pictured outside federal court in Manhattan on Thursday, June 8, 2023, in New York. - New York Daily News/New York Daily News/TNS
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...
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