Thursday, July 24, 2025

AI Gone Wild

 By John R. Byrne

Artificial intelligence is changing the world everyday. Sometimes not for the better. A few weeks back we featured an order from Judge Matthewman sanctioning a lawyer for citing a hallucinated case. That attorney's conduct was child's play compared to the fact pattern Judge Leibowitz just confronted. A preview for you--when the lawyer at issue received an order to show cause about the use of AI-fabricated case citations, he filed a response complete with fabricated AI case quotations. Suffice it to say, things did not end well for said attorney. 

Check out the order below. 

DE 42_Order re AI by John Byrne on Scribd

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow. Thanks for sharing. Two observations: What was this lawyer thinking? (I guess he wasn't.) Second, Judge Leibowitz is a solid writer, man. Good pick for a DJ.

Anonymous said...

Why was that jackass even citing cases in a complaint?

Anonymous said...

Gotta love the Federal District Judge in NJ who cited non-existent obviousy AI generated authorities. I guess I take some twisted comfort in knowing that practicing lawyers are not the only ones fucking this up.

Anonymous said...

Good point.

Anonymous said...

I did not know anything about Judge Leibowitz when he took the bench. Indeed, I had some minor skepticism given stories I had heard. After reading this order, a tip of the hat to the judge. We got (another) a good one on the bench.

Anonymous said...

I don’t know. I have to think that there are lots of litigants waiting for rulings on motions while we get 21 pages just to say don’t make shit up.

Anonymous said...

Chat GBT review the blog post and prepare a witty comment

Based on the order of Judge Leibowitz it is not advisable to use chat gbt for the purposes requested. Blog comments can “cause significant liability issues” Moe v. Larry and Curly, 456 F.3d 617,711 (14th Cir 2027),

Anonymous said...

Bro: some judges in our district literally never rule. You file a motion and, poof, it's off in the ether. I don't know enough about Judge Leibowitz to opinion on whether he's one of those, but I doubt it. Anyway, the facts of this particular case seem to me to be important enough to warrant this reasoned order.

Anonymous said...

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