Two lawyers have been punished by a federal judge for their roles in submitting to him at least eight false, hallucinated case citations that were generated by artificial intelligence.
One of the attorneys must pay $4,000 to a nonprofit legal service provider while the other has been ordered to share his firm’s new AI use policy with a Philadelphia lawyer group so that it serves as a “lesson” to others also practicing intellectual property law, Judge Mark A. Kearney of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said in a Monday order.
The sanctions against Yen-Yi Anderson ...
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