Two More Lawyers Pay for Relying on Artificial “Intelligence”

As we’ve discussed here before and, unfortunately, as people will probably have to keep discussing from now until the Sun grows old and expands to consume the Earth, if “people” survive that long, artificial “intelligence” is perhaps not all it’s cracked up to be. Generative AI has its uses, you say? Okay, then go use it for those uses. But don’t rely on what it tells you in any situation that really matters, or you are likely to regret having done so. Also, if you get caught relying on it, my advice is not to lie about this to the court. It’s too late for the lawyers who got sanctioned by the Ninth Circuit for this on June 3, as detailed in the opinion below. Well, I shouldn’t suggest that they lied. Let’s say they “violated their duty of candor” when they were less than “transparent” when explaining the source of the many obvious errors in their brief, and thus “knowingly or recklessly made false statements” to the court. Because that’s how the court put it. It also noted other…