AI incident #1577 ·
Lawyer in Amarsingh v. Frontier Airlines Sanctioned Over Court-Identified ChatGPT Citation Errors
What happened
In Amarsingh v. Frontier Airlines, the Tenth Circuit sanctioned attorney Kusmin L. Amarsingh after finding that her appellate brief included fabricated case citations and misattributed legal authority generated by ChatGPT and not verified before filing. The court ordered a $1,000 payment to Frontier and referred the matter to Maryland disciplinary authorities.
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Pro Se Litigants, Lawyers, Kusmin L. Amarsingh
- Alleged developer
- Openai, Large Language Model Developers, Chatbot Developers, Ai Research Tool Developers
- Alleged harmed party
- United States Court Of Appeals For The Tenth Circuit, Judicial Integrity, Frontier Airlines, Epistemic Integrity
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