{"id":29037,"date":"2025-02-19T11:21:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T03:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=29037"},"modified":"2025-02-19T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T03:21:27","slug":"%e6%b3%95%e5%be%8b%e8%a1%8c%e4%b8%9aai%e5%b9%bb%e8%a7%89%e5%8a%a0%e5%89%a7%ef%bc%8c%e7%be%8e%e5%a4%9a%e5%90%8d%e5%be%8b%e5%b8%88%e5%9b%a0%e5%bc%95%e7%94%a8%e8%99%9a%e5%81%87%e5%86%85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/29037.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. lawyers disciplined for citing falsehoods as legal industry's 'AI disillusionment' intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Reuters reported today that well-known U.S. personal injury<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%be%8b%e5%b8%88\" title=\"[Sees articles with labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >lawyer<\/a>The firm Morgan &amp; Morgan sent an urgent email to over 1,000 of its attorneys warning them that AI is capable of fabricating false information about jurisprudence, and that they could be fired if they use fictional content in court documents.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29038\" title=\"7a18aac8j00srwul600n7d000n600ulp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/7a18aac8j00srwul600n7d000n600ulp.jpg\" alt=\"7a18aac8j00srwul600n7d000n600ulp\" width=\"834\" height=\"1101\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previously, a federal judge in Wyoming<strong>Threats of sanctions against two lawyers of the firm<\/strong>, because they cited false precedents in a lawsuit against Wal-Mart.<\/p>\n<p>One of the attorneys admitted in court documents that he used a<strong>AI program to \"create\" cases<\/strong>, and apologized for the inadvertent mistake. ai In the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%b3%95%e5%be%8b\" title=\"[Sees articles with [legal] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >law<\/a>The trend of generating false information in documents has led several courts across the United States over the past two years to<strong>Attorneys in at least seven cases have been challenged or disciplined<\/strong>, giving both sides of the lawsuit and the judge the headaches that come with new technology, a Reuters investigation found.<\/p>\n<p>Advances in generative AI technology have helped reduce research and writing time for lawyers, so many law firms are choosing to partner with AI vendors or develop their own AI tools. A survey by Thomson Reuters showed that last year<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>63%'s Lawyer Says He Has Used AI at Work<\/strong>One of the attorneys for 12% indicated that it would be used on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>However, generative AI is characterized by \"<strong>Confidently fabricating facts<\/strong>Known as \"AI,\" legal experts warn that lawyers must be extra careful when using AI. 1AI understands that AIs can sometimes \"hallucinate\" and \"hallucinate\" their way through a case.<strong>Generating false information<\/strong>This is because they are generated based on statistical patterns learned from large amounts of data.<strong>Instead of verifying the accuracy of the facts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Code of Ethics for Lawyers requires lawyers to<strong>Responsible for their court submissions<\/strong>The American Bar Association (ABA) has told all its members last year that they must comply with this obligation even if they make \"inadvertent errors\" through AI. The American Bar Association last year informed all members that even \"unintentional errors\" generated through AI must comply with this obligation.<\/p>\n<p>\"Even as the tools of legal research have changed, the consequences have not,\" said Andrew Perlman, dean of Suffolk University Law School. He is also an expert in advocating for the use of AI to improve the efficiency of legal work.<\/p>\n<p>\"When an attorney uses ChatGPT or any generative AI tool to make up a citation without verifying it, that's incompetence, plain and simple.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to news from Reuters today, on 19 February, Morgan &amp; Morgan, a well-known United States personal injury law firm, sent an emergency e-mail to over 1,000 lawyers warning them that AI was able to fabricate false jurisprudence information and could be dismissed if it used fiction in court documents. Previously, a federal judge in Wyoming had threatened to sanction two lawyers in the firm for having cited false jurisprudence in a lawsuit against Wal-Mart. One of the lawyers admitted in the court documents that he had used an AI procedure of \u201ccreation\u201d of the case and apologized for an inadvertent error. The trend towards the generation of false information in legal documents has led to the emergence of multiple United States courts in the last two years<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[3042,467,2073],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-29037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-467","tag-2073"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29037"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=29037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}