The lawyers on both sides of a federal court case in Mississippi were caught using artificial intelligence, a situation where, effectively, generative AI tools were used to argue against each other.
The judge wrote in a blistering sanctions order, that the lawyers wasted the court’s time, and that “in an era of rampant unverified AI usage within the legal field, this case presents a prime example of the risk associated with serving as a rubber-stamp.”
“This case presents the Court with an unusual scenario—attorneys for both litigants engaged in similar sanctionable conduct,” Sharion Aycock, senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi wrote in a sanctions order. “This court is yet again ‘burdened with addressing AI hallucinations court filings.’”
Can’t be very good lawyers.
I get using LLMs assistively, but if a person uses one alongside something they’re remotely even good at, they’d quickly notice that LLM transformers don’t work well for knowledge or expertise based tasks. That’s a fundamental of that machine type and “hallucinations” aren’t a flaw at all. It’s a language model ffs. SLMs, TLMs, etc. not good picks for that job, and LLMs are probably the worst for it too.
Well its Mississippi so, no probably not very good lawyers honestly.