{"data":{"id":"e86b2d9d-2915-417d-a73a-37921c73e22e","title":"New Mexico lawyer fined for using AI-generated brief containing fabricated testimony","summary":"A New Mexico defense lawyer was fined and held in contempt of court after submitting a legal brief that contained false police testimony and fabricated witnesses generated by ChatGPT (an AI language model that generates text based on prompts). The lawyer, Stephen Aarons, admitted he used ChatGPT to help prepare the brief for a murder conviction appeal but failed to verify that the information was accurate before submitting it to court.","solution":"N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.","labels":["safety","security"],"sourceUrl":"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/11/new-mexico-lawyer-ai-chatgpt-testimony","publishedAt":"2026-09-11T18:04:05.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"info","attackType":[],"issueType":"news","affectedPackages":null,"affectedVendors":["OpenAI"],"affectedVendorsRaw":["OpenAI","ChatGPT"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001","classifierPromptVersion":"v3","cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-09-11T18:04:05.000Z","capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"trivial","impactType":["integrity"],"aiComponentTargeted":"api","llmSpecific":true,"classifierConfidence":0.85,"researchCategory":null,"atlasIds":null}}