Lawyer Sanctioned for Filing Hallucinated Cases Based on Artificial Intelligence Output

United States District Judge Kai N. Scott, sitting in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, recently issued sanctions against a lawyer who relied on generative artificial intelligence to produce fabricated legal citations. The judge introduced the matter with a quote from Karel Čapek’s 1920 science fiction play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): “My dear Miss Glory, the […]