Lawyers have real bad day in court after citing fake cases made up by ChatGPT

The punishment:

> The judge issued one fine of $5,000 to be paid by the two lawyers and their firm under joint and several liability. More embarrassingly for the lawyers, they are required to send letters to six real judges who were "falsely identified as the author of the fake" opinions cited in their legal filings. Castel described the legal analysis in one of the fake cases as "gibberish."