When was the last time you felt that spike of panic, like, oh no, I forgot to write that paper or do that project?

Hopefully it wasn't last week at work. Maybe it was in high school or college.

And you didn't have a lot of options, right? Maybe if you forgot to read the book, you get the spark notes.

You can make friends with that really smart person

that you had no interest in talking to the day before or any other time. You could cheat.

I was always too scared to cheat, but I have one notable exception. When I was dating my husband

in college, we took an online art history class together and he said, I will do all of your tests.

You just have to let me do yours first

so I can get all the answers right online.

And amazingly, he got 100% on every test.

I still got an A plus.

Hey.

Nice.

It worked out.

Everybody won.

I wonder if something like that

was going through the mind of a lawyer from New York who turned

to chat GPT for legal research.

Maybe he got lazy.

Maybe he forgot the deadline.

I don't know.

But he put together a legal brief that referenced six cases that were totally made up.

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