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Lawyer Fined for Using AI to Fabricate Witness Testimony
The New Mexico Supreme Court fined defense attorney Stephen Aarons $5,000 for filing legal documents with false witness statements created by ChatGPT. Aarons had input case materials into the AI, hoping for a perfect summary, but it generated fabricated details. The court found he failed to verify the documents and referred his case to a disciplinary board.
- Language it was published in
- vi
- Date it happened
- 2026-09-09
- Organisation involved
- OpenAI
- Product, system or model
- ChatGPT
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