Lawyer in Amarsingh v. Frontier Airlines Sanctioned Over Court-Identified ChatGPT Citation Errors

January 24, 2025

In Amarsingh v. Frontier Airlines, attorney Kusmin L. Amarsingh was sanctioned by the Tenth Circuit after including fabricated case citations and misattributing legal authority generated by ChatGPT in her appellate brief without proper verification. The court ordered a $1,000 payment to Frontier and referred the matter to Maryland disciplinary authorities. …through contributors—JOIN US—to learn more about responsible AI practices and how to avoid similar errors.

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Alleged deployer: pro-se-litigants, lawyers, kusmin-l.-amarsingh
Alleged developer: openai, large-language-model-developers, chatbot-developers, ai-research-tool-developers
Alleged harmed parties: united-states-court-of-appeals-for-the-tenth-circuit, judicial-integrity, frontier-airlines, epistemic-integrity

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