ChatGPT Under Fire for Bogus Legal Citations in Court.

Two lawyers apologized to a judge in Manhattan federal court after being caught including fictitious legal research in a court filing, blaming ChatGPT for tricking them. The judge confronted them with one legal case invented by the computer program, which was described as legal gibberish. The lawyers apologized and said they had put safeguards in place to ensure nothing similar happens again. An attorney for the law firm also told the judge that lawyers have historically had a hard time with technology.