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To add onto this - the lawyers failed to verify their resources! This is something that every lawyer carefully pays attention to before submitting anything. Th
by cyrialize 3y ago
To add onto this - the lawyers failed to verify their resources! This is something that every lawyer carefully pays attention to before submitting anything.
The fact that they did no research on ChatGPT, and they didn't verify the output from ChatGPT, is pretty bad.
They're being punished more so on how they used their resources, not for using ChatGPT.
- JohnFen 3y ago> They're being punished more so on how they used their resources, not for using ChatGPT Yes, exactly. If they'd used a human intern instead of ChatGPT, it wouldn't change the situation at all.
- furyofantares 3y agoHuh, I think it would? It's still really bad, the quality of the service the client got is still abysmal, and it's still ultimately the lawyer's responsibility. That much is certainly unchanged, it would also be considered a much more understandable mistake.
- smcl 3y agoIf they followed exactly the same processes (showing a screenshot of a text conversation saying "Is X a real case?" when challenged about the nonexistent cases) then I imagine they would have have been treated the same way. However they probably wouldn't have gone down that route, because they know "uhhhh I included those cases because my intern insisted they exist?" absolutely wouldn't fly. The difference is that they thought they could chance it because ChatGPT is a shiny, new thing that some people have a pretty mixed understanding of.