Comedy of AI errors: Lawyers on both sides of a case misuse AI, cite fake hallucinated cases.
At the show-cause hearing, "each of the attorneys expressed embarrassment and apologized to the Court."
"Neither of them verified the legal authority output by AI before filing their briefs."
In other words, there were two clients who basically were paying for ChatGPT (or whatever LLM) to argue against itself.
Neither of them realized this until the court issued the OSC!
Fines all around (between $1,000 and $3,500), other sanctions include pro hac status revoked, disqualified from practicing in the district for 2 years, among other things: