A US federal judge has instructed lawyers that he won’t allow AI-generated content in his court. Texas federal judge Brantley Starr has said that any attorney appearing in his court must attest that no portion of the filing was drafted by generative artificial intelligence, or if it was, that it was checked by a human being, according to TechCrunch. This is because legal briefings are beyond the remit of AI platforms in their current state, which are prone to inaccuracies and bias. ChatGPT, Harvey.AI and Google Bard are among the generative AI platforms cited in the standing order.
ChatGPT, an AI chatbot and part of OpenAI’s GPT series, has recently come under fire after it fooled an attorney into believing that citations given by the AI chatbot in a case against Colombian airline Avianca were genuine. Last month, ChatGPT falsely named an innocent US law professor on a list of legal scholars who had sexually harassed students in a research study.
