This US lawyer used ChatGPT to research a legal brief with embarrassing results. We can all learn from his mistakes

A New York-based lawyer has been fined after he misused the artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, relying on it for research for a personal injury case.

Last week Steven A. Schwartz, fellow attorney Peter LoDuca and law firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, were fined US$5,000 (AU$7,485) for submitting fake citations in a court filing.