Attorney Steven Schwartz experienced first-hand the legal profession’s latest technology nightmare. Schwartz was forced to admit to a Manhattan federal court judge that several precedents cited in his lawsuit were, in fact, “hallucinations” created by ChatGPT.
For verification, he had simply gone back to the Large Language Model (LLM) itself.
“I did not comprehend that ChatGPT could fabricate cases,” Schwartz said.
Fear of inaccurate and falsified legal information haunts the profession. That’s why it’s interesting to learn of an AI-assisted legal platform that recognizes it limits.