He Asked ChatGPT for Court Cases. None Were Real.

A lawyer with about 30 years of experience asked ChatGPT for court cases to support his client. It gave him six, with names, quotes and page numbers. When he asked if they were real, it said yes. None of them existed.

Here's the real story of Mata v. Avianca (2023), why AI "hallucinates", how to spot it, and how to check an AI fact in 30 seconds.

TODAY'S LESSON: AI is a brilliant first-draft machine, and a terrible final authority. 1. Use AI for ideas, never as the source of facts. 2. Check every name, number and quote against the original. 3. The more serious the work, the more a human must check it.

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Dramatised true story. Characters are illustrations. The fine and the sworn-statement details are as reported in news coverage of the case. Sources: legaldive.com/news/chatgpt-fake-legal-cases-sanctions-generative-ai-steven-schwartz-openai/652731/ abc7.com/chatgpt-lawyer-steven-schwartz-ai/13313071/ law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1:2022cv01461/575368/54