2023-06-10 00:51:22
There is no doubt that artificial intelligence It’s in fashion around the world. Even professionals also use it for their work, as was the case with a lawyer who did it for his benefit.
But not everything is rosy. In the middle of the legal process that he was undergoing, they realized that he used ChatGPT to collect information in a lawsuit against the Avianca company.
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But what happened?
The lawyer for a man who sued Avianca in a routine personal injury case used ChatGPT to prepare a briefbut the AI bot provided bogus cases that the lawyer filed with the court, so he ended up getting caught in the middle of the case.
In short, it was the case of a man named Robert Matawhich he claimed was “hit by a metal utility cart” a boarded a flight in 2019 during a flight to Kennedy International Airport in New York and sustained personal injuries.
After receiving a negative response, Mata’s attorneys, including Steven Schwartz, prepared a defense showing several similar cases that had happened for show that these events can be taken as personal injuries.
When the lawyer prepared to present the other examples by means of a brief, the court found several inconsistencies and realized that the “background” did not exist. Furthermore, the worst of the matter is that these alleged cases had false quotes and references, which had been created by ChatGPT.
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According to Forbes Colombia, which contacted Avianca’s legal representatives, The use of ChatGPT was discovered after the airline’s lawyers were unable to find some of the court documents. of the cases Mata’s team was referring to, and filed a request for more information about them.
For his part, the judge in the case, Kevin Castel, will determine if the sanctions imposed on the lawyer are sufficient. Also if they will be applied only for him, or will they also welcome his team of lawyers who were in the case of Mr. Mataaccording to Forbes.
After knowing the case of this lawyer, he himself signed an affidavit admitting that he used the AI chatbotbut stated that he did not intend to mislead the court and did not act in bad faithSo you shouldn’t be penalized.
For his part, attorney Schwartz concluded at the end of this writing that he did not understand that ChatGPT “It was not a search engine, but a generative language processing tool.”
al final, This led to a judge considering sanctions for the lawyer as the legal community deals with one of the first cases of “hallucinations” of Artificial Intelligence in court.
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