> news broke that US lawyer Steven A. Schwartz had turned to the chatbot to find supporting cases in a lawsuit he was pursuing against Colombian airline Avianca

> news broke that US lawyer Steven A. Schwartz had turned to the chatbot to find supporting cases in a lawsuit he was pursuing against Colombian airline Avianca. The problem, of course, was that none of the cases ChatGPT suggested exist. Yeah, a lawyer going to court with "A chatbot told me..." instead of using actual legal tools at their disposal to cite those cases doesn't make as good of an argument as the author seems to think it does. Realizing AIs hallucinate and are not authoritative is firmly in the territory of caveat emptor, we've had an adage about this for decades now: I read it on the internet, It must be true.