AI incident #1576 ·
Lawyers in Lexos Media IP LLC v. Overstock.com Inc. Sanctioned Over Court-Identified AI-Generated Citations
What happened
In Lexos Media IP LLC v. Overstock.com Inc., a Kansas federal judge sanctioned five lawyers after finding that filings included AI-generated defective legal authority that had not been verified before submission. The lawyers were fined $12,000 combined.
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Who was involved
- Alleged deployer
- Sandeep Seth, Lawyers, Law Firms, Sethlaw Pllc
- Alleged developer
- Openai, Large Language Model Developers, Chatbot Developers, Ai Research Tool Developers
- Alleged harmed party
- United States District Court For The District Of Kansas, Overstock.Com, Judicial Integrity, Epistemic Integrity
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