A New York lawyer has come under fire for using ChatGPT for legal investigations as part of a lawsuit against a Colombian airline.
Steven Schwartz, an attorney with the New York law firm of Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, was retained by Robert Mata to file an injury claim against Avianca Airlines.
Mata claims that he suffered an injury from a service cart during his flight with the airline in 2019. according to a May 28 report by CNN Business.
However, after a judge noted inconsistencies and factual errors in the case documentation, Schwartz admitted to using ChatGPT for his legal research. according to an affidavit dated May 24.
He claims that this was the first time he had used ChatGPT for legal research and he was "unaware of the possibility that its content could be false."
In a court on April 5 presentationThe judge in charge of the case stated:
“Six of the cases filed appear to be bogus court decisions with bogus citations and bogus internal citations.”
The judge further stated that certain cases referenced in the filings did not exist, and there was a case where a docket number in one filing was confused with another court filing.
Schwartz said he also regrets trusting the artificial chatbot without doing his own due diligence. The affidavit stated:
“[Schwartz] He greatly regrets using generative artificial intelligence to supplement the legal research conducted on this document and will never do so in the future without full verification of its authenticity."
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In recent times there has been an ongoing debate about the extent to which ChatGPT can be integrated into the workforce.
However, reports indicate that intelligence levels of ChatGPT are advancing rapidly.
But the developers are skeptical that it has the potential to replace humans entirely.
Blockchain developer Syed Ghazanfer said that while he is in favor of ChatGPT, he has doubts that has the communication skills to completely replace human workers.
“For me to replace you, you have to communicate requirements that are not possible in native English. That's why we invented programming languages,” he said.
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