- Two Manhattan lawyers fined $5,000 for filing a ChatGPT-generated court brief could still face additional discipline, but the public attention they’re getting may be the worst of the punishment.
- Steven Schwartz and Peter LoDuca were fined by a federal judge on Thursday for submitting a brief containing bogus quotes from nonexistent cases. The lawyers will also be required to send the 34-page sanctions opinion to the real-life judges that ChatGPT said handed down the fake opinions.
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