ChatGPT's Role in Lawyer's Fake Citations Leads to Sanctions and Doubt in Tech and Legal Industries.

A lawyer used ChatGPT to prepare a filing for a personal injury suit against an airline, but the AI bot delivered fake cases that the attorney then presented to the court, leading a federal judge to consider sanctions. The lawyer argued that he didn't understand that ChatGPT was not a search engine but a generative language-processing tool. The incident has raised concerns about the use of AI in legal research and the potential for false information to be presented in court.