[filoleg]

The way I see it, AI cannot claim legal ownership of the output produced, it belongs to the human that generated it (e.g., an example of someone using generative AI to produce a painting that can be copyrighted by them).

Which makes me think that this case should be treated just as if the lawyer wrote it on their own. If the lawyer enters output of chatGPT they generated into court records as if it was their own, it was their own. The lawyer wrote those made up cases into the documents, and the entire matter should be treated as such.

It blows my mind the lawyer didn't double-check the fake cases cited by chatGPT, but had the idea to ask chatGPT whether those citations were legit (and then got his concern satisfied with a simple "yes").