Turns Out ChatGPT Can Fabricate More Than Just Case Law

So there are pros and cons to using generative AI when writing briefs. Pro: The chance to save entire minutes when creating work product! Con: The possibility of career-ending sanctions. Flip a coin, I guess. Whatever the decision process may have been in this case, if any, it came out the wrong way. This can be gathered from the first page of the opinion below, which says it it is issued in the matter of In Re [Attorney Name] and has the title, “DISPOSITIONAL ORDER OF DIRECT CONTEMPT.” As always, I suggest you structure your practice to avoid this sort of thing. The opinion explains that the court issued an order to show cause requiring a defendant’s attorney to explain why he should not be held in contempt for filing a brief that appeared to be generated by AI. That appeared to be so, the court said, because pretty much everything in it was made up: [R]espondent admitted to the Court that the brief … contained false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses Officer Michelle…