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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 (www.techspot.com)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 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