Sidley Enhanced Scrutiny Alert: Can ChatGPT Do Our Jobs Better Than Us? Not Yet.

Artificial intelligence and its impact on the practice of law is in the news again. Readers likely have heard about the attorneys that used ChatGPT, an artificial chatbot that synthesizes high volumes of data, to draft a legal brief that they submitted in a civil action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Unfortunately for these practitioners, ChatGPT cited multiple cases that did not exist, and the attorneys recently endured a sanctions hearing before the presiding district judge. Sidley Austin’s recent Enhanced Scrutiny Alert covers this recent discovery here.