New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters.
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State supreme court fined the attorney and held him in contempt for not verifying facts in a court filing.
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WorldPing"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.
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