A federal judge in New Orleans fined a veteran lawyer $1,000 on Tuesday over an error-filled legal brief he drafted using ChatGPT that cited a slew of “hallucinated” court cases.
U.S. District Judge Brandon Long spared punishment for three other lawyers whose names also appeared on the botched brief, but who said they never reviewed it or knew it came from artificial intelligence.
The ruling followed a series of elaborate courtroom apologies from the four lawyers touched by the latest scandal involving lawyers relying too much on AI…