This is what happens when somebody uses ChatGPT as if it’s a search engine. People are so used to precise and deterministic output from programs that it’s hard for them to imagine one that not only fabricates truths, but also does so convincingly.
The lawyer who created the brief, Steven A. Schwartz of the firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, threw himself on the mercy of the court on Thursday, saying in an affidavit that he had used the artificial intelligence program to do his legal research — “a source that has revealed itself to be unreliable.”
Source: A Man Sued Avianca Airline. His Lawyer Used ChatGPT. – The New York Times