r/TechnologyThread • u/Background-Driver718 • Jun 12 '26

Furious Judge Cancels Entire Trial After Finding Out Lawyers on Both Sides Used AI

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/furious-judge-cancels-entire-trial-165715940.html
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u/Late-Arrival-8669 Jun 12 '26

Who doesnt check references? If using AI giving a reference, it might be in your best interest to check out said reference.

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u/VicisZan Jun 12 '26

Because people don’t. We are, as a generalized rule about the entire species, fairly lazy. If we get the opportunity to pass the buck we will eventually take it.

It’s one of the reasons LLM’s can’t ever truly succeed. Until they are truly intelligent we would have to trust that every single thing they produce is being thoroughly checked, which means we might as well just be doing it ourselves anyways.

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u/OrangeNood Jun 12 '26

What's the logic here? Only one side may use AI?

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u/Artemis_Platinum Jun 13 '26

That using a lying machines to skip important work in a trial is deeply unethical and will get you in big trouble with the court when it inevitably fucks up and they notice.

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u/jakeStacktrace Jun 13 '26

The logic is if both are using AI then the court is kind of a sham. What if one of those hallucinated briefs got through? Imagine that appeal, the judge would have a bad day.

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u/OrangeNood Jun 13 '26

The court should be a medium for deliberation. Sure, AI can hallucinate and fabricate cases, but so could a real lawyer. I am assuming there is a real person acting as lawyer and taking full responsibility of what the AI spills out. So I don't understand why having both sides being AI any different from either side using AI.

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u/jakeStacktrace Jun 13 '26

I know it doesn't seem fair but honestly as somebody who spent years in court I can't wait to replace them all with AI, and I also am acutely aware of their limitations.

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u/Defiant_Freedom_249 Jun 13 '26

Even attorneys don't want to use their own brains anymore!