Legal idiot food
A Court Made Meta Unmask the Troll Posting AI Fakes of Graham Norton
Graham Norton won a US court order forcing Meta to unmask the anonymous account flooding Facebook with AI fabrications about him and his family.
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Lawsuits, court sanctions, tribunals, and settlements where AI met a judge.
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Lawyers on Both Sides Cited Fake AI Cases, So a Judge Killed the Trial and Banned Four of Them
In Withers v. City of Aberdeen, every lawyer on both sides filed briefs citing AI-hallucinated cases, so Judge Sharion Aycock cancelled the trial, disqualified all four attorneys, fined them $1,000 to $3,500, and barred two for two years.
Legal WTF
Anthropic Pirated 500,000 Books and Settled for $3,000 Apiece
Anthropic settled the authors' piracy case for $1.5 billion, about $3,000 a book, the largest copyright payout on record.
Legal idiot food
Publishers Sue Google for Strip-Mining Their Traffic, Clicks Down 58%
Penske, Chegg, and others allege AI Overviews cannibalized their traffic, with click-through down as much as 58%.
Legal idiot food
Google's AI Overviews Told Everyone to Put Glue on Pizza and Eat One Rock a Day
Days after launch, Google's AI Overviews told users to add glue to pizza sauce and eat a rock a day, repeating an old Reddit joke and Onion satire as fact at the top of search.
Legal dumpster fire
New York City's Official Bot Told Business Owners to Steal Worker Tips and Refuse Cash
New York City's official MyCity small-business chatbot told owners they could take workers' tips, fire whistleblowers, and refuse cash, and the city left it online after the errors surfaced.
Legal furious
Air Canada Called Its Chatbot a Separate Legal Entity, Then Lost in Tribunal
Air Canada's chatbot invented a bereavement-refund policy, the airline argued in tribunal that the bot was a separate legal entity responsible for its own words, and Moffatt v. Air Canada made the airline pay anyway.
Legal unhinged
ChatGPT Invented Six Court Cases for a Federal Brief, and Two Lawyers Got Sanctioned
A Manhattan lawyer used ChatGPT to research a brief against Avianca, it fabricated six judicial decisions with fake quotes and docket numbers, and Judge P. Kevin Castel fined the lawyers and their firm $5,000.