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Judge sends ChatGPT-using lawyer to AI school with $5,500 fine after he's caught creating imaginary caselaw: 'Any lawyer unaware that using generative AI platforms to do legal research is playing with fire is living in a cloud'


A prompt verdict.

Alas, the creditor in question, Corona Investments LLC, didn't like the look of it, and so filed a "kitchen sink" objection that disputed (among other things) the plan's feasibility. This had judge Slade a tad baffled, so he gathered his staff and "began to examine the issue in depth to see if Semrad’s argument was supported by the caselaw" and quickly found, well, problems. Nield and Semrad asked the court not to sanction them over the blunder since, hey, "they have already voluntarily: (1) admitted their misconduct and promised not to do it again; (2) withdrawn any application for compensation in this case; and (3) watched an online CLE [Continuing Legal Education] video."

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