Few technological innovations have so rapidly brought the judicial bench to high alert as generative artificial intelligence.

So far, while the technology has its benefits, it also causes headaches in the courtroom. Recently, a New York attorney sent shockwaves through the legal world by submitting to court a ChatGPT-generated brief, rife with fabricated case citations, and subsequently got slapped with a $5,000 fine. Only months later, another attorney repeated the mistake, using ChatGPT to write an ex-parte filing, full of erroneous citations.

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