The AI Crackdown Is Coming

In April, lawyers for the airline Avianca noticed something strange. A passenger, Robert Mata, had sued the airline, alleging that a serving cart on a flight had struck and severely injured his left knee, but several cases cited in Mata's lawsuit didn't appear to exist. The judge couldn't verify them, either. It turned out that ChatGPT had made them all up, fabricating names and decisions. One of Mata's lawyers, Steven A. Schwartz, had used the chatbot as an assistant--his first time using the program for legal research--and, as Schwartz wrote in an affidavit, "was unaware of the possibility that its content could be false."