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Title: 'AI Slop' in Court Filings: Lawyers Keep Citing Fake AI-Hallucinated
Cases

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/18922...

"According to court filings and interviews with lawyers and scholars, the
legal profession in recent months has increasingly become a hotbed for AI
blunders," reports the New York Times: Earlier this year, a lawyer filed a
motion in a Texas bankruptcy court that cited a 1985 case called Brasher v.
Stewart. Only the case doesn't exist. Artificial intelligence had concocted
that citation, along with 31 others. A judge blasted the lawyer in an
opinion, referring him to the state bar's disciplinary committee and
mandating six hours of A.I. training. That filing was spotted by Robert
Freund, a Los Angeles-based lawyer, who fed it to an online database that
tracks legal A.I. misuse globally. Mr. Freund is part of a growing network of
lawyers who track down A.I. abuses committed by their peers, collecting the
most egregious examples and posting them online. The group hopes that by
tracking down the A.I. slop, it can help draw attention to the problem and
put an end to it... [C]ourts are starting to map out punishments of small
fines and other discipline. The problem, though, keeps getting worse. That's
why Damien Charlotin, a lawyer and researcher in France, started an online
database in April to track it. Initially he found three or four examples a
month. Now he often receives that many in a day. Many lawyers... have helped
him document 509 cases so far. They use legal tools like LexisNexis for
notifications on keywords like "artificial intelligence," "fabricated cases"
and "nonexistent cases." Some of the filings include fake quotes from real
cases, or cite real cases that are irrelevant to their arguments. The legal
vigilantes uncover them by finding judges' opinions scolding lawyers... Court-
ordered penalties "are not having a deterrent effect," said Freund, who has
publicly flagged more than four dozen examples this year. "The proof is that
it continues to happen."

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