In a personal injury lawsuit involving an airline, a New York attorney used the AI tool ChatGPT to conduct legal research and cite cases that didn't exist. This behavior aroused suspicion and dissatisfaction of the judge and demanded an explanation.

According to the BBC, ChatGPT is an AI tool capable of generating original text upon request, but it also comes with a caveat stating that it may sometimes provide inaccurate information.



In legal documents filed by the plaintiffs' litigation team, they cited multiple past court decisions in an attempt to establish a precedent and demonstrate that the case should proceed. However, opposing lawyers representing the airline later wrote to the judge saying they could not find some of the cases mentioned in the documents.

"Six of the cases presented appear to be false judicial decisions with false citations and false internal citations," Judge Castel wrote in an order. In addition, the judge ordered plaintiffs to sue The team explains.

After multiple submissions, the court found that the legal research in question was not conducted by plaintiffs' attorney Peter LoDuca, but by a colleague of his at the same law firm. Steven A Schwartz, a lawyer with over 30 years of experience, used ChatGPT to search for similar precedents.