In an example of how extensively large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are being used (and misused), an appeals court in Georgia has overturned a lower court’s ruling, because that ruling relied on case law that was either non-existent or irrelevant to the matter at hand. The lawyer who had submitted the bogus cases in her filing was fined $2,500, payable to the other party in the case.
“We are troubled by the citation of bogus cases in the trial court’s order,” reads the ruling, which notes that the attorney “had cited the two fictitious cases that made it into the trial court’s order … and she cited additional fake cases both in that Response and in the Appellee’s Brief filed in this Court.”
