Neither the defendant's lawyers nor the judge could find the citations the plaintiff's lawyer had submitted.
All would have gone well for Mr. Schwartz had the citations and judicial decisions mentioned in the briefing had not been a figment of ChatGPT’s imagination.
After Avianca filed the motion to throw out the case, Mr. Schwartz, who has been a practicing attorney for the last 30 years, submitted a 10-page brief with citations of similar cases in the past. But neither the lawyers representing Avianca nor the judge himself could find the cases cited in the paper.
Of the citations submitted, “six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations,” further said the notice dated May 4, 2023..' It's when generative AI tools like ChatGPT spew out false answers to prompts. These answers aren't real and do not match the data it has been trained on. A 'hallucinating' AI tool could, for example, create false news reports or give a list of lawsuits that do not exist.
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