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Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases | Another lawyer was caught using AI and not checking the output for accuracy, while a previously-reported case just got hit with sanctions.
Another lawyer was caught using AI and not checking the output for accuracy, while a previously-reported case just got hit with sanctions.
Attorney Rafael Ramirez, who represented a company called HoosierVac in an ongoing case where the Mid Central Operating Engineers Health and Welfare Fund claims the company is failing to allow the union a full audit of its books and records, filed a brief in October 2024 that cited a case the judge wasn’t able to locate. The judge wrote that he “does not aim to suggest that AI is inherently bad or that its use by lawyers should be forbidden,” and noted that he’s a vocal advocate for the use of technology in the legal profession. The attorneys contritely admitted to using AI to generate the cases without catching the errors, and called it a “cautionary tale” for the rest of the legal world.
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