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A lawyer was fined $5,000 for citing witnesses that AI invented
The Verge· 11 SepNew Mexico's Supreme Court fined a lawyer $5,000 and held him in contempt after his murder appeal brief quoted witnesses ChatGPT had invented. The mistake is never the model making something up. It is a person sending it without checking. That is a process problem, and one line of policy fixes it: a person checks anything that leaves the building.
- Write one rule for your team: anything a model produces that leaves the building gets checked by a person against a source.
- For quotes, numbers and names, require the source link in the draft itself, so checking takes seconds rather than minutes.
Source: The Verge. This is our short summary of their reporting. The commentary in it and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. Picture from the source, unless it is our own graphic. How we source and credit
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