A lawyer who represents MyPillow and his CEO Mike Lindell in a defamation admitted that he used artificial intelligence in a letter with nearly 30 defective quotes, including wrong quotes and quotes for fictional cases, a federal court said.
“[T]The court identified nearly thirty defective quotes in the opposition. These defects include but are not limited to incorrect quotes of cited cases; Wrong presentation of cases of the principles of rights associated with quoted cases, including discussions about legal principles that simply do not appear within such decisions; Deviations from the question of whether the case law came from a binding authority such as the United States Court of Appeal for the tenth circuit; Wrong construction of case law on this district; And the most serious, the quote that does not exist, “wrote the American district judge Nina Wang in an order to show the cause on Wednesday.
Wang ordered lawyers Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer Demaster to show reason why the court should not punish the defendants, law firm and individual lawyers. Kachouroff and Demaster must also explain why they should not be referred to disciplinary procedures for violations of the rules of professional behavior.
Kachouroff and Demaster, who defend Lindell against a lawsuit filed by former Dominion voice systems Eric Coomer, both signed the assignment of 25 February with the defective quotes. Kachouroff, who represented the defendants as the chief advisor, admitted that he used AI to write the assignment during a hearing of April 21, the judge wrote. The case is in the US court for the Colorado district.
“Time and time again, when Mr Kachouroff was asked for an explanation why quotes were inaccurate to the legal authorities, he refused to give an explanation, or suggested that it begged a 'concept',” Wang wrote. “Only when this court directly asked Mr Kachouroff if the opposition was the product of generative artificial intelligence, Mr Kachouroff admitted that he in fact used generative artificial intelligence.”
