Attorney Pleads for Mercy After Using AI in Court, Where It Made Up Fake Lawsuits

Legally speaking: they may have f*cked up.

Few settings would seem worse suited for submitting AI-generated text than a court of law, where everything you say, write, and do, is subjected to maximum scrutiny.

And yet lawyers keep getting caught relying on crappy, hallucination-prone AI models anyway, usually to the judge’s — and the client’s — chagrin. After all the public shaming, you’d think they’d know better by now.

The latest high-profile instance, The Register reports, comes from a…