A federal judge ordered two lawyers representing the CEO of Mypillow, Mike Lindell, to pay $ 3,000 each after having used artificial intelligence to prepare a legal file which was riddled with errors, including quotes to non -existent affairs and errors of judgment.
Christopher Kachouroff and Jennifer Demaster violated the judicial rules when they filed the request which contained nearly 30 defective quotes, judge Nina Y. Wang of the American district court of Denver on Monday.
“Notwithstanding any suggestion on the contrary, this court does not draw any joy from sanctioning the lawyers who appear before him,” wrote Wang in his decision, adding that the sanction against Kachourouff and Demaster was “the least severe sanction to dissuade and punish the Defense Council in this case”. “”
The request was filed in the defamation case of Lindell, which ended last month when a Denver jury found Lindell responsible for defamation for having pushed false complaints that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
The deposit has poorly cited the previous ones and highlighted legal principles which were not involved in the cases it cited, according to the decision.
During a hearing before the trial after the discovery of errors, Kachouroff admitted that he used generative artificial intelligence to write the motion.
Kachouroff initially declared to the judge that the request was a project and had been tabled by accident. But the “final” version which, according to him, was the right one was always riddled with “background errors”, including some that were not included in the registered version, Wang wrote.
It was the “contradictory statements of lawyers and the lack of corroborant evidence” which led the judge to believe that the filing of the request generated by AI was not “an inadvertent error” and deserved a sanction.
The judge also noted that the accusation of Kachouroff against the court trying to “blind” him on the errors was “disturbing and not well taken”.
“Neither Mr. Kachouroff nor Ms. Demaster provided the explanatory court on the way in which these quotes appeared in an opposition project in the absence of the use of generative artificial intelligence or flagrant negligence by the Council,” Wang wrote.
Kachouroff and Demaster did not immediately send a request for comments on Monday.
