An Indiana attorney who admitted to using generative AI tools to draft court filings that contained fabricated case citations should be fined $15,000, a federal magistrate judge recommended.
Rafael Ramirez failed to make any effort to verify the cases cited in the AI-generated text, and his “professed ignorance of the propensity of the AI tools he was using to ‘hallucinate’ citations” warrants the fine, Magistrate Judge Mark J. Dinsmore wrote in a Feb. 21 report and recommendation for the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
Although lawyers shouldn’t be banned from using AI, “the use of artificial ...