‘This case presents Court with unusual scenario’: Judge fires lawyers after finding both used AI to argue

• Mississippi judge takes dim view of case as it was clear lawyers on both sides were using AI to make their arguments
• The sanction order included fines, disbarment and disbarment of the present case for the lawyers involved
• Advice from AI remains a somewhat tricky affair given the lack of accountability and the model’s tendency to ‘hallucinate’

In what could be considered a comical incident that could be a sign of things to come, a US federal judge had to manually step in and admonish lawyers on both sides of the aisle after she noticed they were using AI.

Senior U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock, of the Northern District of Mississippi, noted that this was not the first time her court had to deal with the case of being “burdened with dealing with AI hallucinations in litigation.”