Jan 24, 2025Confirmed
Tenth Circuit sanctions lawyer for fabricated ChatGPT case citations in appellate brief against Frontier Airlines
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In Amarsingh v. Frontier Airlines, the Tenth Circuit sanctioned attorney Kusmin L. Amarsingh after her appellate brief contained fabricated case citations and misattributed authority generated by ChatGPT and not verified. The court ordered a $1,000 payment to Frontier and referred the matter to Maryland disciplinary authorities.
What this means for youAI chatbots can invent sources that look real, and courts now sanction people who file them unchecked. At work, check every citation or fact an AI gives you before you rely on it or submit it.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1577
Data from the AI Incident Database (incidentdatabase.ai), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. IAAI-21.
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