A New York federal judge on Thursday sanctioned two lawyers who submitted a legal brief written by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT.
Judge P. Kevin Castel said that the attorneys, Peter LoDuca and Steven Schwartz, “abandoned their responsibilities” when they submitted the A.I.-written brief in their client’s lawsuit in March, and “then continued to stand by the fake opinions after judicial orders called their existence into question.”
The brief included citations of non-existent court opinions and fake quotes.
Castel ordered both LoDuca and Schwartz, along with their law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, to each pay $5,000 in fines.
