NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday imposed sanctions on two New York lawyers who submitted a legal brief that included six fictitious case citations generated by an artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT.
U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel in Manhattan ordered lawyers Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca and their law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman to pay a $5,000 fine in total.
Levidow, Levidow & Oberman said in a statement on Thursday that its lawyers "respectfully" disagreed with the court that they acted in bad faith.
Lawyers for Avianca first alerted the court in March that they could not locate some cases cited in the brief.
His order also said the lawyers must notify the judges, all of them real, who were identified as authors of the fake cases of the sanction.
Persons:
District Judge P, Kevin Castel, Steven Schwartz, Peter LoDuca, Levidow, Oberman, Schwartz, LoDuca, Avianca, Bart Banino, Sara Merken, Leigh Jones, Jamie Freed
Organizations:
YORK, District Judge, Colombian, Avianca, Thomson, & $
Locations:
U.S, York, ChatGPT . U.S, Manhattan