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Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases (www.404media.co)

submitted 18 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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But the explanation and Ramirez’s promise to educate himself on the use of AI wasn’t enough, and the judge chided him for not doing his research before filing. “It is abundantly clear that Mr. Ramirez did not make the requisite reasonable inquiry into the law. Had he expended even minimal effort to do so, he would have discovered that the AI-generated cases do not exist. That the AI-generated excerpts appeared valid to Mr. Ramirez does not relieve him of his duty to conduct a reasonable inquiry,” Judge Dinsmore continued, before recommending that Ramirez be sanctioned for $15,000.

Falling victim to this a year or more after the first guy made headlines for the same is just stupidity.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

I hate people can even try to blame AI.

If I typo a couple extra zeroes because my laptop sucks, that doesn't mean I didn't fuck up. I fucked up because of a tool I was using, but I was still the human using that tool.

This is no different.

If a lawyer submits something to court that is fraudulent I don't give a shit if he wrote it on a notepad or told the AI on his phone browser to do it.

He submitted it.

Start yanking law licenses and these lawyers will start re-evaluating if AI means they can fire all their human assistants and take on even more cases.

Stop acting like this shit is autonomous tools that strip responsibility from decisions, that's literally how Elmo is about to literally dismantle our federal government.

And they're 100% gonna blame the AI too.

I'm honestly surprised they haven't claimed DOGE is run by AI yet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Exactly. If you want to use AI for something, cool, but you own the results. You can try suing the AI company for bad output, but you can't use the AI as an excuse to get out of negative consequences for something you are expected to do.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago

In this case he got caught because smart judge without IA. In a few years the new generation of judges will also rely on AI, so basically AI will rule the cases and own the judicial system.