HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A federal judge sanctioned three attorneys for an Huntsville law firm and removed them from a lawsuit Wednesday for their use of ChatGPT-created citations.
According to court documents filed on July 23, Matthew B. Reeves, William J. Cranford and William R. Lunsford were disqualified from further participation in a lawsuit filed by an Alabama prison inmate, Frankie Johnson, who alleges that state prison personnel failed to protect him, and he was attacked and stabbed multiple times on three different occasions.
The attorneys admitted in federal court in May that one of their firm partners used ChatGPT to find case citations to strengthen their arguments – but the citations were made up, apparently invented by the AI tool…