Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

[GreatGazoo]

So THIS is how civilization ends...

An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month.

New York Supreme Court Judge Joel Cohen wrote in a decision granting the plaintiff's attorneys' request for sanctions that the defendant's counsel, Michael Fourte's law offices, not only submitted AI-hallucinated citations and quotations in the summary judgment brief that led to the filing of the plaintiff's motion for sanctions, but also included "multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations" in the process of opposing the motion.

"In other words," the judge wrote, "counsel relied upon unvetted AI -- in his telling, via inadequately supervised colleagues -- to defend his use of unvetted AI."

https://www.404media.co/lawyer-using-ai-fake-citations/

[Attilatheblond]

1. One supposes his use of AI is about not putting in the actual hours of work

for 'billable' hours charged his clients? Wow, saving money on paralegal assistance must really boost his profit margin.

[GreatGazoo]

3. Yes but it seems a simple thing to get right

He wrote the prompts wrong. A good prompt would tell AI to link him to all of the citations it uses so he could quickly check that they exist.

If you prompt AI with something like "include citations that justify your legal argument" then it may invent them.

An AI critic recently said 'the danger is that humans are not good at specifying goals while AI is ruthless in its delivery of what is asked of it.'

[Attilatheblond]

5. Will he blame that error on an underling?

Seems it is too often the lowest paid female in an office who gets blamed for crappy work.

[justaprogressive]

2. GAAAAAAAAHHHH!

[SheltieLover]

4. Just watched Lehto Law You Tube on this

Imho, I hope this shitbag loses his license!