Courts cracking down on error-strewn AI-assisted legal briefs

LONDON, United Kingdom — When a US judge found fabricated quotes in a lawyer’s brief earlier this year, the attorney admitted he had used Claude, an artificial intelligence chatbot, to write the document. That got him a fine and a mandatory course on how to use AI properly. But this case was just one in a rising tide of AI “hallucinations” muddying the legal waters. Now some courts are trying to stem the tide by cracking down on the lawyers concerned. It was judge Jerry Edwards Jr., of Louisiana district court, who sanctioned the lawyer in that recent US case […]... Keep on reading: Courts cracking down on error-strewn AI-assisted legal briefs