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A photo taken on January 2, 2025 shows the letters AI for Artificial Intelligence on a laptop screen (R) next to the logo of the Chat AI application on a smartphone screen in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany. (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV\/AFP via Ge <\/p>\n
ATLANTA<\/strong> – The Georgia Court of Appeal has fined an Atlanta lawyer after a judge ruled that she appeared to have used artificial intelligence in one of her clients’ divorce cases.<\/p>\n The judges say that multiple cases attorney Diana Lynch cited in her motion were found not to exist.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n In the ruling obtained by FOX 5, Judge Jeff Watkins fined Lynch $2,500 in connection with an order in her client’s divorce case.<\/p>\n According to the judge, half of the cases the order referred to appear to be “‘hallucinations’ made up by generative-artificial intelligence.” The other two had nothing to do with the pro-proposition Lynch stated in her brief, Watkins said.<\/p>\n When the ex-wife of Lynch’s client pointed out the non-existent cases, the judge said that Lynch cited nearly a dozen references that also did not exist or were irreverent to the proposition. The attorney then allegedly requested fees connected with the appeal.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n Jackson wrote that he and the other judges were “troubled” by the bogus cases cited in the trial court’s order.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Lynch\u2019s use of fictitious cases and citations has deprived the opposing party of the opportunity to appropriately respond to her arguments,” the judge wrote.<\/p>\n The judges also cited a warning by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts about the use of AI by lawyers in his 2023 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary. In that report, Roberts specifically warns against “hallucinations” that may cause attorneys to cite non-existent cases.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The fine imposed on Lynch is the maximum penalty the law allows.<\/p>\n The judges also vacated the previous court order and sent the case back to a lower court to reconsider.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information for this story came from a ruling by the Georgia Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n Georgia<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article A photo taken on January 2, 2025 shows the letters AI for Artificial Intelligence on a laptop…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,738,17505,50,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-38088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-ga","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114795054536172632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}