Advertisement
Lindell's Lawyers Used AI to Write Brief, Judge Finds Errors
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.
Menu
Front Page Breaking News Comments Flagged Comments Recently Flagged User Blogs Write a Blog Entry Create a Poll Edit Account Weekly Digest Stats Page RSS Feed Back Page
Subscriptions
Read the Retort using RSS.
RSS Feed
Author Info
lamplighter
Joined 2013/04/13Visited 2025/04/30
Status: user
MORE STORIES
Impatient and Unruly Voters Confront Congressman Lawler (10 comments) ...
Trump wants kids learning AI in kindergarten (3 comments) ...
Infosec pros tell Trump to quit bullying Chris Krebs (2 comments) ...
US Economy Shrinks 0.3% in First Quarter of 2025 (21 comments) ...
Lindell's Lawyers Used AI to Write Brief, Judge Finds Errors (16 comments) ...
Alternate links: Google News | Twitter
Lawyer for MyPillow Founder Filed AI-Generated Brief with 'Nearly 30' Bogus Citations https://gizmodo.com/lawyer-for-mypillow-founder-filed-ai-generated-brief-with-nearly-30-bogus-citations-2000594743[image or embed] -- Gizmodo (@gizmodo.com) April 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Lawyer for MyPillow Founder Filed AI-Generated Brief with 'Nearly 30' Bogus Citations https://gizmodo.com/lawyer-for-mypillow-founder-filed-ai-generated-brief-with-nearly-30-bogus-citations-2000594743[image or embed]
Admin's note: Participants in this discussion must follow the site's moderation policy. Profanity will be filtered. Abusive conduct is not allowed.
More from the article...
... "[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. ...
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 | Funny: 1
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 | Newsworthy 1
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 | Funny: 1
@#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 | Newsworthy 1
"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 | Newsworthy 1
Well, when you're broke and possibly having to resort to trading pillows for legal advice, this is what you get.
#9 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-04-30 12:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Lawyers using AI to help write court documents is not, in and of itself, a violation of their responsibilities.
Not supervising, crosschecking, validating what you submit to the court is. Every time.
#10 | Posted by et_al at 2025-04-30 12:50 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
#6 | Posted by LampLighter
Who cares?
#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-30 11:20 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Just more incompetence from the incompetent.
That's some pretty blatant incompetence.
Looks like he is now fully eligible for a major cabinet position in the Trumpy administration.
#12 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-30 11:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
@#12 ... Looks like he is now fully eligible for a major cabinet position in the Trumpy administration. ...
Maybe he'll be the one to replace Sec Hegseth, if the time comes...
#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-30 11:32 AM | Reply
"Your honor, I refer you to Alabama v. Gambini/Rothenstein."
#14 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-04-30 01:30 PM | Reply | Funny: 2
2020 was such a weird year.
Republicans denied the existence of a viral pandemic, despite Trump's Operation Warp Speed paying Pfizer and Moderna to create a vaccine.
Followed by the same morons attacking the Capital building because they couldn't accept the fact Trump lost an election.
America still hasn't recovered, from either event.
#15 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-30 04:19 PM | Reply
But who knew Stay-Puft Man v. GhostBusters, et al wasn't a real case, your honor???
#16 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-04-30 04:31 PM | Reply
Post a comment The following HTML tags are allowed in comments: a href, b, i, p, br, ul, ol, li and blockquote. Others will be stripped out. Participants in this discussion must follow the site's moderation policy. Profanity will be filtered. Abusive conduct is not allowed. Anyone can join this site and make comments. To post this comment, you must sign it with your Drudge Retort username. If you can't remember your username or password, use the lost password form to request it. Username: Password: Home | Breaking News | Comments | User Blogs | Stats | Back Page | RSS Feed | RSS Spec | DMCA Compliance | Privacy
The following HTML tags are allowed in comments: a href, b, i, p, br, ul, ol, li and blockquote. Others will be stripped out. Participants in this discussion must follow the site's moderation policy. Profanity will be filtered. Abusive conduct is not allowed.
Home | Breaking News | Comments | User Blogs | Stats | Back Page | RSS Feed | RSS Spec | DMCA Compliance | Privacy