Lawyer in Amarsingh v. Frontier Airlines Sanctioned Over Court-Identified ChatGPT Citation Errors
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.
- Date it happened
- 2025-01-24
- Organisation involved
- Pro se litigants, Lawyers, Kusmin L. Amarsingh
- Product, system or model
- Large language models, ChatGPT, Chatbots, AI research tools
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