From a live tweet of the proceedings around the lawyer caught using ChatGPT:
"I thought ChatGPT was a search engine".
It is NOT a search engine. Nor, by the way are the version of it included in Bing or Google's Bard.
Language model-driven chatbots are not suitable for information access.
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@emilymbender Seems like this lawyer has the bad practice of proceeding from false assumptions. This flaw can get you into huge trouble in fields where there is rock-hard accountability like engineering.
@opendna @emilymbender Yup. That's how it should be. It's the same in engineering. Your design doesn't have to actually fall down and kill people for you to lose your PE accreditation.
@shuttersparks @emilymbender I mean, this lawyer is facing disbarment and potentially jail time, and there wasn't actual harm yet.