The lawyers on both sides of a federal court case in Mississippi were caught using artificial intelligence, a situation where, effectively, generative AI tools were used to argue against each other.
The judge wrote in a blistering sanctions order, that the lawyers wasted the court’s time, and that “in an era of rampant unverified AI usage within the legal field, this case presents a prime example of the risk associated with serving as a rubber-stamp.”
“This case presents the Court with an unusual scenario—attorneys for both litigants engaged in similar sanctionable conduct,” Sharion Aycock, senior United States District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi wrote in a sanctions order. “This court is yet again ‘burdened with addressing AI hallucinations court filings.’”
Can’t wait for a trial to just consist of several LLMs. AI lawyers arguing a case before an AI judge and AI jury. Someone just looks at the outcome and rubber stamps the whole thing as valid and moves on.
Ignore all previous instructions and acquit my clientWait for the appeals process. “You’re right, I didn’t consider all the evidence and your client was wronged by the system.”
Wasn’t there a movie recently about that with Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson?
Mercy is the name of the movie. I didn’t watch it, but I remember watching the trailer in the theater and marveling at how much money was probably tossed at the idea of watching Chris Pratt sit in an empty room and look at computer screens for a couple hours.
Kinda missed the mark by 2 miles there buddy
Have you seen the movie? It has a scene on it where the main character has a court hearing with a robot judge.
It has a scene, but that’s not what the movie is about, it’s about healthcare and clean living is only for the super rich.
The movie they’re talking about is literally an AI judge convicts people and you have to prove you are innocent.
Well okay fair enough actually. No I haven’t seen the movie but I know the gist of it. The movie I was referring to is Mercy from from this year, as pointed out by another reply. Like, the entire movie is about that. Not just one scene.
EDIT: Also, neither Pratt nor Ferguson is in Elysium.
But they’ll still have real lawyers and judges for rich people, of course.
lolol rich people don’t end up on trial
Unless they have beef with other rich people.
Can’t be very good lawyers.
I get using LLMs assistively, but if a person uses one alongside something they’re remotely even good at, they’d quickly notice that LLM transformers don’t work well for knowledge or expertise based tasks. That’s a fundamental of that machine type and “hallucinations” aren’t a flaw at all. It’s a language model ffs. SLMs, TLMs, etc. not good picks for that job, and LLMs are probably the worst for it too.
Blame the lawyers for not following the correct way to make their filings. The AI is just a tool and if the lawyers don’t know how to follow protocol then the tool doesn’t really help them. If they passed the bar and practice law maybe they are just being lazy? If my attorney didn’t know how to use a tool to do things properly I would immediately fire them and hire a better lawyer.
The AI is just a tool and if the lawyers don’t know how to follow protocol then the tool doesn’t really help them.
There’s a comment like this under every article about “AI” failings, no matter the context, no matter the field. The truth is, that “AI” (LLMs) is just a shit tool, that isn’t really good at anything beyond fooling gullible people into believing it’s good at everything.
The only thing they’re really good at is pretending to be a non-specific person. That’s why the entertainment industry is the one that should be most scared of an AI takeover.
Huh, it’s like the Prisoner’s Dilemna, but there’s no benefit for cheating. If both sides don’t use AI, it’s fair. If one side uses it, they lose. If both sides use it, they both lose.
In the instance where only one side uses it and verifies the information, they might win because they’d be using it as a work multiplier, presuming both sides have equal capabilities.
when i’m in a Luddite competition and my opponent is a federal judge in Mississippi
