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Yes, ideally everyone should check every e.g. Wikipedia citation before relying on it, but obviously most people don't.

In the past, the only way to come across completely made up court citations regarding obscure bankruptcy procedures would've been that somebody intentionally made them up, probably maliciously.

Given how unlikely that is, if you didn't understand that GPT just makes up text that resembles what you want to see, I'd understand trusting it as you would a search engine.

It's not like lawyers are visiting court clerk's office to verify every case they find in some online database.

[JohnFen]

> I'd understand trusting it as you would a search engine.

But he didn't do that. Lawyers don't just "trust" the results from a search engine. Part of their job is to confirm facts, not just parrot them.

> It's not like lawyers are visiting court clerk's office to verify every case they find in some online database

No, they don't. Instead, they look them up in the databases that collect these filings. It's effectively the same thing, just much more efficient than physically travelling to various offices.