ChatGPT's Bogus Legal Cases Cause Trouble for Lawyers

Two lawyers are facing possible punishment over a filing in a lawsuit against an airline that included references to past court cases that were actually invented by the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, ChatGPT. The lawyers blamed the program for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing. Microsoft has invested some $1 billion in OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. The case demonstrated how the lawyers might not have understood how ChatGPT works because it tends to hallucinate, talking about fictional things in a manner that sounds realistic but is not.