Fined
$31K
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2026-06-17
Shahryar Mazaheri used AI to draft court filings containing fake and irrelevant citations, and the tribunal ordered him to pay $31,150 in costs.
Mazaheri v Law Society of Ontario, 2026 ONLSTH 112 (CanLII) · Shahryar Mazaheri · Law Society Tribunal of Ontario · ON
“"But unlike a human, a large language model does not appreciate nuance or exercise judgment or use a moral compass when writing. It just does calculations, and then puts words in the order dictated by statistical probabilities. The calculations are impressive – large volumes of authoritative-sounding text are generated in seconds or minutes. But they are just calculations. And the product only reads or sounds like text written by humans. It isn't the same."”
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- Mazaheri v. Law Society of Ontario involved Shahryar Mazaheri.
- He used AI to prepare a factum, supplementary factum, affidavit, and supplementary affidavit without checking the output.
- The tribunal ordered costs of $31,150 to the Law Society of Ontario.
- The decision was by the Law Society Tribunal in Ontario, Canada.
- The article says the AI output included citations to cases that don’t exist and real cases irrelevant to the points made.