Update: New Mexico lawyer fined for using AI-generated brief containing fabricated testimony
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Stephen Aarons stated he tried to use ChatGPT to create a ‘bulletproof summary’ during a murder conviction appeal A defense lawyer appealing his client’s murder conviction submitted a legal brief containing made-up police testimony and witnesses fabricated by OpenAI ’s ChatGPT, New Mexico ’s highest court stated. The report also notes that The New Mexico supreme court on Wednesday fined the attorney, Stephen Aarons, and held him in contempt for failing to verify the accuracy of the court filing, which Aarons stated he prepared with support from the artificial intelligence ( AI ) application.
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