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Simon Willison does a deep review of the ChatGPT aspects of the recent case where a lawyer submitted ChatGPT-hallucinated case law.
May 30, 2023 1 min

Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused Simon Willison does a deep review of the ChatGPT aspects of the recent case where a lawyer submitted ChatGPT-hallucinated case law. The story starts out as a standard ChatGPT hallucination, but got crazier when ChatGPT doubled down when asked to confirm if the cases were real. (I actually ran the confirmation prompt Willison used and it worked for me)