Lawyers Should Permanently Lose Their Licence (and Worse) for Using Chatbots in Legal Work
They not only waste people's money and time. They pollute the literature with falsehoods. They commit perjury.
Related: Brett Wilson LLP Sent Over 5 Kilograms (or Over 12 Pounds) of Legal Papers! Because Writing About Microsoft Abuses is 'Illegal'. (Lots of copypasta there, one might even argue they plagiarise my work and misuse boilerplate text to repeatedly engage in abuse of process)
So my former employer, Datamation, has this new article entitled "California Judge Slaps Lawyer with $10,000 Fine for ChatGPT-Generated Brief"
That's it?
A fine?
After getting caught red-handed (which does not always happen due to a lack of certainty)?
As an associate has put it: "Small fine for committing perjury in court."
"Such a small fine establishes that the lawyers themselves are no longer held responsible for the tools they choose to use or abuse," he said. "Specifically if they commit a crime using a computer, they are virtually let off with barely a slap on the wrist. That simply encourages more such undesirable behaviors."
As a reminder, Brett Wilson LLP sent the Judge nearly 1,000 pages of material (mostly mine, copied without any proper permission) shortly before a short Hearing, which lasted less than an hour. We'll explain this some time in the distant future. When you act this way the Judge is left with little time or desire to read what the "other side" has to say or submits.
This isn't law. This is lawfare. It's a legion of lawyers, funded by wealthy third parties they refuse to name (asking about it results in them defaming the asker; hypocrites!), attacking a modest couple [1, 2] (victims of actual crimes) on behalf of Microsoft staff that was in prison. The employees of Microsoft should be named and shamed, based on actual facts.
Brett Wilson LLP is now being sued by its own clients [1, 2], but we do not know the nature of the claims yet. █