Sanctions watch

“Nichols “offered no meaningful explanation” and had filed “made-up” legal citations.”

“an invention, indeed a hallucination, of AI.”

“It appears that the worker’s submission was created, at least partly, with the use of artificial intelligence.”

“pervasive misconduct”

““Many of Ms Chen’s authorities are irrelevant or do not exist – in either case appearing to be hallucinations of a generative artificial intelligence application.””

““Rather than taking the time necessary to ensure that they did not compound the burdens on the court, however,” the justices wrote in their order that less than 12 hours after receiving the order, plaintiffs dug a deeper hole by filing “a declaration that included citations to at least four cases that do not exist in the Oregon Appellate Reports or the Oregon Reports.””

“Because pro se parties are also bound by the Rule 11 duty to confirm that cited authorities exist and support their propositions, the court dismissed with prejudice, finding amendment would yield “additional unsupported allegations” and more defective filings rather than curing the complaint’s deficiencies.”

“the Court determined to dismiss Mr Ba's claim.”

“the “extraordinary” sanctions were warranted”

“The injection of false precedent undermines the integrity of the proceedings. Doing it repeatedly, and in response to a show cause order, warrants imposition of a meaningful sanction.”

“nothing to review”

“Simply stated, no brief, pleading, motion, or any other paper filed in any court should contain any citations – whether provided by generative AI or any other source – that the person responsible for submitting the pleading has not personally read and verified.”

“Only 14 out of 60 cases were hallucinations.”

“the statement of claim had clearly been generated using a generative AI tool.”

““The ‘AI-generated citations’ in the filing were ‘hallucinated’ and not supported by the law.””

“The ASBCA called the safeguards “woefully insufficient.””

“Our decision here is not based on the use of AI as a method of research; it is based on the protester’s repeated reliance on non-existent citations or decisions without verifying their correctness and applicability to the arguments being presented.”

“When he argued the fine was too high, the court shot back that caving to his arguments “would only benefit serial hallucinators.””

““The fact that her citations to nonexistent legal authority are so pervasive, in volume and in location throughout her filings, can lead to only one plausible conclusion: that an AI program hallucinated them in an effort to meet whatever [the defendant’s] desired outcome was based on the prompt that she put into the AI program,””

“needs to take decisive action to protect the integrity of its processes against any citation of fake authority.”

“This sounds like something that derived from an artificial intelligence source,”

“the statement of claim having been drafted entirely with the assistance of ChatGPT.”

“The general public should be warned against the use of generative AI devices and programs in matters of law.”

“The Court of Appeals noted that the “bogus citations” could not, “for any reason….be countenanced and represent a flagrant violation of the duty of candor” owed to the court.”