Lawyer cites fake witnesses in murder case and blames ChatGPT
WASHINGTON, Sept 11 : New Mexico's highest court has fined attorney Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for submitting a brief containing fabricated witnesses and police testimony generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT. The New Mexico Supreme Court deemed Aarons' court filing as containing false testimony from entirely fabricated witnesses.
Furthermore, the court found that Aarons demonstrated a lack of remorse and concern for his client. Aarons stated that he used ChatGPT to summarize trial proceedings when he agreed to take up his client's appeal last year, but admitted to not fully understanding the extent to which AI could generate inaccurate facts. He expressed remorse but hoped that the disciplinary board would consider it an honest mistake.
The case is still pending, and the client's new defense attorney, Kim Chavez Cook, declined to comment on the matter.
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