While ChatGPT passed the bar exam, it’s not ready to accept a client yet. It was paid by a lawyer. To carry out his research, Steven Schwartz used the artificial intelligence model. But the OpenAI solution addressed lawsuits that never existed, notes The Verge site.
The lawsuit in question opposes a certain Roberto Mata to the Colombian airline Avianca, specifies the New York Times. On a flight to New York, a metal trolley hit his knee. Therefore, he turned against the company for compensation.
I don’t know that ChatGPT can lie
But to avoid the dismissal of the lawsuit, the man’s lawyer had to find similar cases in which the plaintiffs won their case. He later he advanced six cases. If artificial intelligence ensured that the cited cases were true, neither the judge nor the opposing lawyer would be able to find the judicial decisions.
In an affidavit, Steven Schwartz admitted to using ChatGPT to conduct his research. But to verify the software’s claims, he simply asked if he wasn’t lying. In defense, the lawyer said that he had never used ChatGPT before and was therefore “not aware that its content could be false.”
The case has since been transferred to the Southern District of New York, where attorney Steven Schwartz is not licensed to practice. Therefore, his colleague Peter LoDuca took over the file. So it is up to him that the task of explaining the use of ChatGPT to evoke fabricated evidence will fall to him.
Source: BFM TV
