Missing a deadline, failing to realize that a case existed that was applicable, misreading forms, etc... Mistakes/errors are one thing. But submitting cases th

Missing a deadline, failing to realize that a case existed that was applicable, misreading forms, etc... Mistakes/errors are one thing. But submitting cases that don't exist, and then doubling down and saying that they do? There's layers of incompetence and apathy that had to happen here to get to this point, from using a tool without researching it at all (any research into ChatGPT as a legal aid would bring up warnings), to ignoring the warnings that OpenAI itself provides, to not checking the work that tool spit out (seriously, it's not hard to validate that these rulings don't exist), to being told that the cases don't exist and then repeating the entire process... It's not just they made a mistake, the way they made the mistake reveals how little care they are putting into the research they're doing. The only way this could happen is if ChatGPT was the only source this lawyer was using. Because any other source: fact checker, Internet search, etc... should have noticed either that the cases didn't exist or should have at least prompted "why is it that these cases only show up in ChatGPT and not in any of the other sources I'm looking at?" I don't know that they should obviously be disbarred, but I would have thought that it should at least be on the table. Massive levels of incompetence can be grounds for disbarment I believe. Whether this lawyer acted incompetently enough? :shrug: But we are talking about incompetence here, not just a mistake/error. If the takeaway for this lawyer from the penalties is just "now I know not to rely on ChatGPT", then that's not really addressing the problems that led to this situation in the first place.