Link: https://www.404media.co/new-york-court-ai-citations-landberg-case/

“In preparing for this oral argument and reviewing the brief of appellant, it came to the attention of the court that the brief submitted by plaintiffs cites at least three cases that appeared to be fictitious,” Nelson said. “None of these cases, nor the quoted language, appears to exist.”

Not only did Sanders cite cases that don’t exist, Nelson said, he cited 10 other cases that appear to misrepresent the law. “How do you respond?” Nelson asked.

Justification: The use of AI to cite fake cases exemplifies the enshittification of legal services, where people pay the same amount for representation while the actual work is handled poorly by clankers.

Maybe issuing an automated loss to the party that uses LLMs to hallucinate arguments would change their mind.

Suspension of law license, hefty fines, and disbarment would all be far better than simply auto-losing a case. If anything, the people who hired said attorneys should be able to sue for compensation of legal fees and any other monetary losses due to their attorney’s gross negligence.

And, said attorneys should be legally required to take out at minimum a half page newspaper article, radio ad space, and tv ad space explaining what happened and why.

Ineffective advice of counsel for sure, should get you a new trial at least.

Slop, slop, tada la la la la 🎶

I think of all the comedies where the idiot who cites joke cases.

that isn't far enough