Lawyer Gets Serious Suspension for Filing ‘Fictitious’ Motion with AI
This article originally appeared on WND.com
Guest by post by Bob Unruh
Cited ‘hallucinated cases’
There’s a warning here somewhere for lawyers, officials, perhaps doctors and certainly students: anyone who as the part of his or her day submits written documents.
Don’t use ChatGPT.
That’s one conclusion after officials announced a 90-day suspension for a Colorado lawyer who submitted a motion to court that “cited case law that he found through the artificial intelligence platform, ChatGPT.”
The problem is that the lawyer, Zachariah C. Crabill, “did not read the cases he found … or otherwise attempt to verify that the citations were accurate.”
The software had given him case citations that either were “incorrect” or simply “fictitious.”
Legal columnist Eugene Volokh explained,
