Former Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa. Credit: Dave Oxford for the New York Law Journal

I have some practical advice for lawyers going forward on how to avoid the hot-water pitfalls now overwhelming the fellow who is before U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York.

Steven Schwartz's use of artificial intelligence's research shortcut-stepchild ChatGPT as a tool has certainly backfired. He would have done better to heed an old-fashioned admonition: Do your own real hard work and don't foolishly rely on artificial fads.