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Sunday, April 27, 2025

A lawyer representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell in a defamation case admitted using artificial intelligence in a brief that has nearly 30 defective citations, including misquotes and citations to fictional cases, a federal judge said.

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... "[T]he Court identified nearly thirty defective citations in the Opposition. These defects include but are not limited to misquotes of cited cases; misrepresentations of principles of law associated with cited cases, including discussions of legal principles that simply do not appear within such decisions; misstatements regarding whether case law originated from a binding authority such as the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; misattributions of case law to this District; and most egregiously, citation of cases that do not exist," US District Judge Nina Wang wrote in an order to show cause Wednesday.

Wang ordered attorneys Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer DeMaster to show cause as to why the court should not sanction the defendants, law firm, and individual attorneys. Kachouroff and DeMaster also have to explain why they should not be referred to disciplinary proceedings for violations of the rules of professional conduct. ...



#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-27 02:30 PM | Reply

"Dewey, Cheatham, AI, and Howe".

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-27 05:20 PM | Reply

Did they quote Ron Navro?

#3 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-27 07:17 PM | Reply

Look, any legal firm taking Lindell's case is really short of actual intelligence, especially if they expect to get paid.

#4 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-04-27 07:19 PM | Reply

ChatGPT is not a legal AI anyone should use.

Use with the LexisNexis or Westlaw ones, if you pay for them of course.

Bloomberg's is fairly sketchy to be honest.

#5 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-27 10:09 PM | Reply

@#4 ... Look, any legal firm taking Lindell's case is really short of actual intelligence, especially if they expect to get paid. ...

I do not necessarily agree with that comment.

My opinion takes a different approach to Mr Lindell's situation ...

What level (quality?) of legal representation can he now afford?


#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-27 10:16 PM | Reply

The big push now in service industry is to use AI to do the work. Problem with AI is that it is almost as incompetent as the trump administration.

#7 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-28 08:37 AM | Reply

"The big push now in service industry is to use AI to do the work."

But who specifically wants this?
I want to see how the people who don't know how AI works are making the decisions that they want AI.
Whole thing feels like some kind of mass hysteria.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-28 08:39 AM | Reply

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