A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT
We're a very tech forward law firm, and we're bullish on AI. The issue is that lawyers are traditionally tech illiterate, and they treat Gen AI like a search engine that puts results in narrative form. Realistically, I think AI generated motions and contracts are the future, and this instance will be looked at by every tech averse lawyer to try and stymie progress in the field. These lawyers deserve their sanctions for being so reckless with things they don't understand, but rather than take away that lawyers need to learn tech, lawyers will say tech is bad. I almost wish this was non-news so it wouldn't further push the legal industry into the past, but those clients were wronged and I guess people need to know what to beware of when hiring a lawyer.Personally, we get really good results from using AI, it's already present in all of our processes, but we tell it what to generate, rather than rely on it to know better.