ChatGPT | 人工智能撰写庭审文件？律师界惊现假案例丑闻（上）

2023-06-29 15:16 作者:翻译技术点津 0人读过 | 我要投稿

导语：律师承认在法律文件中引用了人工智能工具ChatGPT虚构的六个案例，法官惊呼“活久见”。他因此和同事陷入麻烦之中，律师事务所也可能面临处罚，这究竟是怎么回事，快跟着小编一起来看看吧！

Lawyer cited 6 fake cases made up by ChatGPT; judge calls it "unprecedented"

律师援引了六个ChatGPT捏造的虚假案例；法官惊呼“活久见”

Judge weighs punishment for lawyer who didn't bother to verify ChatGPT output.

律师并未认真核实ChatGPT提供的信息，法官将酌情处罚。

Judge weighs "unprecedented circumstance"

法官权衡“前所未有的情况”

Lawyer Steven Schwartz of the firm Levidow, Levidow, & Oberman is in trouble after admitting he used ChatGPT to help write court filings that cited six nonexistent cases invented by the artificial intelligence tool. The "citations and opinions in question were provided by ChatGPT which also provided its legal source and assured the reliability of its content," he wrote, and he admitted that it is his fault for not confirming the sources provided by ChatGPT.

Levidow，Levidow & Oberman律师事务所的史蒂文·施瓦茨（Steven Schwartz）律师承认使用了ChatGPT来撰写庭审文件，而这些文件引用的案例中有六个是ChatGPT胡诌的，这给他带来了巨大的麻烦。他写道，“这些引用和观点是由ChatGPT提供的。ChatGPT不仅提供了其法律来源，还保证这些内容是可靠的"，他也承认没有核实ChatGPT提供的来源是他的失误。

Federal Judge Kevin Castel is considering punishments for Schwartz and his associates. "The Court is presented with an unprecedented circumstance," Castel wrote in a previous order on May 4. "A submission filed by plaintiff's counsel in opposition to a motion to dismiss is replete with citations to non-existent cases... Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations."

联邦法官凯文·卡斯特尔（Kevin Castel）正在考虑对施瓦茨及其同事进行惩罚。卡斯特尔在5月4日的一份命令中写道：“对于法院而言，目前这种情况是前所未有的。原告律师提交了文件反对驳回动议，但这些文件却引用了大量不存在的案例......其中有六个似乎是虚假的司法判决，包含虚假的引证和虚假的内部引文。”

注释：motion to dismiss：驳回（原告）起诉的申请，指被告以原告沒有陈述一项法律可对之提供救济的请求，或该请求在其他方面存在法律上的欠缺为由，申请法院驳回原告的起诉。在开庭审理前，被告往往基于诉状、传票送达、审判地、共同诉讼人等方面存在不足或缺陷为由而提出此种申请。（来源：元照英美法词典）

The filings included not only names of made-up cases but also a series of exhibits with "excerpts" from the bogus decisions. For example, the fake Varghese v. China Southern Airlines opinion cited several precedents that don't exist.

这些文件不仅包含虚假案例的名称，还包括一系列“摘录”自虚假判决的证据。例如，虚假的Varghese（瓦吉斯）诉中国南方航空公司案的意见书引用了几个不存在的先例。

"The bogus 'Varghese' decision contains internal citations and quotes, which, in turn, are nonexistent," Castel wrote. Five other "decisions submitted by plaintiff's counsel contain similar deficiencies and appear to be fake as well," Castel wrote.

卡斯特尔写道：“虚假的‘瓦吉斯诉中国南方航空公司’一案的判决包含内部引文和引证，而这些引文又是不存在的。原告律师提交的其他五个“判决”存在类似的问题，而且这些判决似乎也是虚假的”。