The Utah Court of Appeals sanctioned the lawyer for citing a case that an AI program ChatGPT invented.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) A photo from inside the Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023.
In a Utah first, a lawyer was punished last week by the state Court of Appeals for filing a brief with “fake precedence” created by artificial intelligence.
The use of the AI was discovered when several of the…
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