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Humiliated lawyers fined $5,000 for submitting ChatGPT hallucinations in court: ‘I heard about this new site, which I falsely assumed was, like, a super search engine’ (fortune.com)
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The judge scolded the lawyers for doubling down on their fake citations.

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[–] ulu_mulu 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

which I falsely assumed was, like, a super search engine

A "super search engine" is still a search engine, if you're incapable of validating the results, or if you don't know you should, you shouldn't be a lawyer at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, dude apparently didn't even know how to read a case reference and guessed Fd3 stood for Federal District 3 (spoiler: it's Federal reporter Edition 3). Not that I would have guessed any different, but I'm not and never was in any kind of law education, not to mention being a lawyer, who supposedly deal with case references all the time.