Judge cuts law firm's legal bill in half after it used ChatGPT to calculate "excessive" amount
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New York City-based Cuddy Law Firm used ChatGPT to support its application for the massive fees the company was charging for a recently won trial.

Judge cuts law firm’s legal bill in half after it used ChatGPT to calculate “excessive” amount | ChatGPT thinks lawyers don’t get paid enough, apparently::undefined

  • recursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.devEnglish
    31·
    9 months ago

    TL;DR:

    Lawyer to client: “final bill of $113,484 please”.

    Judge: “Why?”

    Lawyer: “chatGPT said so”

    Judge: “lmao no, new bill is now half”

    for reasons that included the use of ChatGPT.

    I am not a lawyer.
    The judge may or may not have said lmao.

    it’s like a 2min short article,

    • I’d recommend reading it just in case I got something wrong.
    • JoeEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      Judge: “lmao no, new bill is now half” for reasons that included the use of ChatGPT.

      Meanwhile the prompt: Given X man-hours at $rate plus expenses of $expenses, and a padding multiplier of 4, generate a legal cost report in the format expected by the court. /s