Trouble with AI 'hallucinations' spreads to big law firms [View all]
Source: Reuters
Another large law firm was forced to explain itself to a judge this week for submitting a court filing with made-up citations generated by an artificial intelligence chatbot.
Attorneys from Mississippi-founded law firm Butler Snow apologized to U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco in Alabama after they inadvertently included case citations generated by ChatGPT in two court filings.
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The 400-lawyer firm, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, is defending former Alabama Department of Corrections Commissioner Jeff Dunn in an inmate's lawsuit alleging he was repeatedly attacked in prison. Dunn has denied wrongdoing. The judge has not yet said whether she will impose sanctions over the filings.
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Last week a lawyer at law firm Latham & Watkins, which is defending AI company Anthropic in a copyright lawsuit related to music lyrics, apologized to a California federal judge after submitting, opens new tab an expert report that cited an article title invented by AI.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trouble-with-ai-hallucinations-spreads-big-law-firms-2025-05-23/
Just call it Abandoning Intelligence.
Btw, Latham & Watkins is one the big law firms that made deals with Trump.
And they failed to catch an AI hallucination while representing an AI company.
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