How can people that stupid? I’m aware that finding cases under that anglo-saxon law system is critical and hard work, and that you can turn around if you can find a prior case that you can cleverly adapt to a case. So use the AI to find potentially applicable cases, and check them personally if they fit.

But letting AI invent cases that can easily be falsified as non-existing and putting them in a court document is peak stupid for a lawyer. The 10k punishment is actually on the low side what I’d suggesst for this. And it better results in a disbarment for repeat offenders.

On top of that, the person or company that this lawyer misrepresented in this case should also sue him for misconduct.

Second offense better be disbarment. These are not people to be trusted to practice law.

$10,000. Not much of a fine to a lawyer.

He thinks it is unrealistic to expect lawyers to stop using AI. It’s become an important tool just as online databases largely replaced law libraries and, until AI systems stop hallucinating fake information, he suggests lawyers who use AI to proceed with caution.

Then I have bad news for him: OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws.

“In the meantime we’re going to have some victims, we’re going to have some damages, we’re going to have some wreckages,” he said. “I hope this example will help others not fall into the hole. I’m paying the price.”

Here’s an idea: how about re-reading the brief and double-checking the citations?! Stupid fuck.