Two Manhattan lawyers fined $5,000 for filing a ChatGPT-generated court brief could still face additional discipline, but the public attention they’re getting may be the worst of the punishment.
Steven Schwartz and Peter LoDuca were fined by a federal judge on Thursday for submitting a brief containing bogus quotes from nonexistent cases. The lawyers will also be required to send the 34-page sanctions opinion to the real-life judges that ChatGPT said handed down the fake opinions.
“They’re lucky, but I think it’s enough of a sanction considering they’ve been the poster children for incompetent use of artificial intelligence in the ...