ChatGPT Cited Non-Existent Cases in a Lawyer’s Brief

ChatGPT
law
ethics
generative AI
NLP
Courts need a tool to fact-check briefs after a lawyer’s filing turned out to be replete with AI-hallucinated citations.
Author

synesis

Published

May 27, 2023

Courts need a tool to fact check all the briefs.

Eugene Volokh. May 27, 2023. A Lawyer’s Filing “Is Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases”—Thanks, ChatGPT? Reason. [1]

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Originally posted on LinkedIn.

References

[1] Eugene Volokh. May 27, 2023. “A Lawyer’s Filing ‘Is Replete with Citations to Non-Existent Cases’—Thanks, ChatGPT?” Reason. https://reason.com/volokh/2023/05/27/a-lawyers-filing-is-replete-with-citations-to-non-existent-cases-thanks-chatgpt/