Sanctions watch

“When used without safeguards, large language models frequently introduce confusion and delay into proceedings, and worse, constitute an abuse of process that may potentially bring the administration of justice into disrepute.”

“The court finds “good cause supports the imposition of sanctions in order to deter such conduct in the future, which amounts to serious misconduct that threatens to impugn the integrity of the courts and the administration of justice,” Guerra Gamble said.”

““but the sheer number of inaccurate or nonexistent citations suggests otherwise,””

“At this point, it ‘is no secret that generative AI programs are known to ‘hallucinate’ nonexistent cases, and with the advent of AI, courts have seen a rash of cases in which both counsel and pro se litigants have cited such fake, hallucinated cases, in their briefs,’”

“Nearly all of the legal quotations in plaintiff’s opening brief, and many of the quotations in plaintiff’s reply brief, are fabricated,”

“He wrote that allowing revisions would unfairly burden defendants who had already responded, noting that the proposed corrections still contained errors.”