"But this latest blunder from a New York attorney, in a lawsuit centered on a disputed loan, takes the cake. As 404 Media reports, after getting caught using AI by leaving in hallucinated quotes and citations in his court filings, defense lawyer Michael Fourte then submitted a brief explaining his AI usage - which was also written with a large language model."
"Needless to say, the judge was not amused. "In other words, counsel relied upon unvetted AI - in his telling, via inadequately supervised colleagues - to defend his use of unvetted AI," wrote New York Supreme Court judge Joel Cohen in a decision filed earlier this month. "This case adds yet another unfortunate chapter to the story of artificial intelligence misuse in the legal profession," the judge further lamented."
Many lawyers have repeatedly misused AI tools, producing hallucinated quotations and fabricated citations in court filings. A New York defense attorney in a disputed loan lawsuit submitted filings that contained invented quotes and citations generated by AI. The plaintiffs' legal team identified the erroneous and fabricated authorities and sought sanctions. In responding to the sanctions motion, the defense filed an opposition that relied on AI and included more than twice as many erroneous or made-up citations. New York Supreme Court judge Joel Cohen rebuked the defense for relying on unvetted AI and lamented the growing pattern of artificial intelligence misuse in the legal profession.
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