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

In this case, the worst that could have happened if NOONE checked whether the cited cases were real and relevant AND the judge somehow decided that New York law stood above federal law and international treaties, would have been for an aviation company paying someone compensation for allegedly hurting a passenger and causing a bad knee.