ChatGPT Reportedly Produced False Court Case Law Presented by Legal Counsel in Court
May 4, 2023
A lawyer in Mata v. Avianca, Inc. used ChatGPT for research. ChatGPT hallucinated court cases, which the lawyer then presented in court. The court determined the cases did not exist.
- Alleged deployer
- steven-a.-schwartz, peter-loduca
- Alleged developer
- openai
- Alleged harmed parties
- roberto-mata, peter-loduca, steven-a.-schwartz
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/541
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