New Mexico lawyer fined for using AI-generated brief containing fabricated police testimony
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- The Verge·12h agoLawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in…
Read at The Verge → - Ars Technica·13h agoChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.
Read at Ars Technica → - Guardian Tech·15h agoNew Mexico lawyer fined for using AI-generated brief containing fabricated police testimony
Stephen Aarons said he tried to use ChatGPT to create a ‘bulletproof summary’ during a murder conviction appeal A defense lawyer appealing his client’s murder conviction submitted a legal brief containing made-up police testimony and witnesses fabricated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT,…
Read at Guardian Tech → - The West World·15h agoNew Mexico lawyer fined for using ChatGPT-generated brief with fabricated testimony
Made-up testimony and non-existent witnesses in a US appeal against a murder conviction have been revealed as the work of artificial intelligence.
Read at The West World →
