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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro-6-9-23: Disorder In The Court: Legal Controversy Over AI
Description: A federal judge in New York is considering sanctions against an attorney who used the ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool to draft a legal brief that was presented as evidence, but contained case citations that were completely untrue; fabricated by the AI tool.
In a court hearing yesterday, the New York Times reports, Judge P. Kevin Castel, grilled attorney Steven A. Schwartz, about why he used results produced by the chatbot without first personally checking that they were accurate.
According to the Times, Schwartz told the judge he "did not comprehend that ChatGPT could fabricate cases".
Meanwhile, a federal Judge in...