Lawyer Faces Sanctions for Using ChatGPT to Draft Brief Riddled with Errors

A lawyer threw himself on the mercy of a Manhattan court, saying in an affidavit that he had used the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to do his legal research — “a source that has revealed itself to be unreliable.” The judge said in an order that he had been presented with “an unprecedented circumstance,” a legal submission replete with “bogus judicial decisions, with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations.”