This isn't new; you are responsible for work you sign off on. It doesn't matter that your legal assistant drew up the brief; you are obligated to do due diligence and verify it.
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Steve Thompson <ste...@wkyr.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 5:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Legal Problems with ChatGPT [Was Re: Simple request from chatGPT to write assembler program.] Here is a take-off on the forbes article which is from the Legal Ethics Law 360 email list (I also get the transportation law stuff too): Insurance Coverage For ChatGPT Legal Fiasco: A Hypothetical <https://www.law360.com/transportation/articles/1696764?nl_pk=d963732e-149d-4918-a703-34cd62053317&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=transportation&utm_content=2023-07-21&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=24> William Passannante at Anderson Kill draws on the recent case of an attorney sanctioned by the Southern District of New York for submitting a ChatGPT-authored brief to discuss what the insurance coverage for the attorney's hypothetical claim might look like. And I think this is the original case: Attys Behind ChatGPT Fiasco Apologize To Client, 7 Judges <https://www.law360.com/legalethics/articles/1696411?nl_pk=19259802-3c70-4a5b-a647-8dd625cabc30&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=legalethics&utm_content=2023-07-06&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> By Hailey Konnath A pair of New York personal injury attorneys apologized Wednesday to seven federal and state judges and to a client for submitting a brief prepared by artificial intelligence that cited nonexistent case law attributed to the judges, according to copies of the letters filed in Manhattan federal court. And there are now other articles over whether or not chatGPT can defame a person or something like that... And something about the case being remanded.. (my head hurts). Steve Thompson On 9/5/2023 5:11 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/06/08/lawyer-used-chatgpt-in-court-and-cited-fake-cases-a-judge-is-considering-sanctions/ > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 4:03 PM Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Can't remember whether I read about it here or somewhere else, but >> apparently there was a recent episode in which a lawyer got an AI machine to >> write a legal brief for him. It looked impressive, but it turned out the >> precedents the brief cited didn't exist; the AI made them up. The judge >> fined the lawyer. >> >> --- >> Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 >> >> /* The most important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have >> all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the >> possibility of their ever being supplemented in consequence of new >> discoveries is exceedingly remote. -Abraham Albert Michelson in 1903 */ >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of >> Dean Kent >> Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 12:46 >> >> I spent a bit of time playing with chatGPT to see what it could do. So did >> my two sons - one an MS in biotech, the other a PhD in theoretical physics. >> We all came to the same conclusion - chatGPT is a very, very good Google >> search that can filter many different possible 'answers' and come to one >> that is 'most likely' based on various factors. It has little to no >> creativity or understanding of what it is asked to do. Not surprising, but >> different than what the popular press seems to say about it. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
