Lawyers sanctioned for citing ChatGPT's fake cases in court.

Attorneys in New York who cited fake cases created by OpenAI's ChatGPT in their court filings have been sanctioned by a judge. The lawyers submitted non-existent judicial opinions with fake quotes and citations created by the AI tool, then continued to stand by the fake opinions after judicial orders called their existence into question. The judge ordered each attorney to pay a $5,000 fine to the court, notify their client, and notify each real judge falsely identified as the author of the cited fake cases. The judge dismissed the plaintiff's injury claim against Avianca because more than two years had passed between the injury and the lawsuit.