AN INTRODUCTION to Natural & Artificial Intelligence in Law Blog – AI Law, Rights, and Technology

AI Hallucinations

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67 UK Cases of AI Hallucinated/False Citations (Confirmed or Suspected): An important case involving the CPS

Tobosaru v Court of Law Craiolva, Romania

"...I have accepted the apology given on behalf of the Crown Prosecution Service and the assurance that there was no attempt to mislead. I have noted the steps taken to ensure that there is no repetition but considered that it was necessary to set out what had taken place in this judgment given the serious consequences that an error of this nature might have had in other circumstances. It would be naive to assume that there will not be an increasing use of artificial intelligence in legal work in future; indeed, that may be both necessary and beneficial. The episode highlights the risks of its use without appropriate oversight particularly for legal research."

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5 AI legal Issues from Abraham v Hound Technology Ltd (Employment Tribunal): Does the Speed of AI Leave Enough Time to Reflect? Confidentiality, Accessibility and Authorship

Abraham v Hound Technology LTD

"…one of our primary concerns as judges is to ensure that AI generated documents reflect rather than suggest a party's case and evidence." Employment Judge Tynan

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AI Evidence in Court: A Claude Output, an AI-Translation Explanation and Obtaining Expert Witness Prompts

AI evidence in court

"...With regard to this part of the evidence, I note that my assessment must be conducted based on how the average consumer would pronounce the marks. Thus, I find that the AI-derived evidence does not have any probative value for my assessment. I will not further refer to this part of the evidence."

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66 UK Cases of AI Hallucinated/False Citations (Confirmed or Suspected): The Lessons from Cork & Anor v Smith

Cork & Anor v Smith

"...What is remarkable when reading those chats is, first, that one would think that the text attributed to the AI was produced by an intelligent human being. The second remarkable thing is that, on a large number of occasions, it is plainly wrong or, at the very least, extremely misleading."

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64 UK Cases of AI Hallucinated/False Citations (Confirmed or Suspected) – Principles for Lawyers and Litigants

AI hallucination cases

"While litigants in person in the FTT are (entirely appropriately) given a greater degree of latitude in their conduct of the proceedings than represented parties, no person has immunity from sanction when committing a serious breach of court or tribunal rules..."

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The Dangers of Using AI to Assist with Witness Statements: Lessons from Godwin v Godwin

AI-assisted witness statements

"There was no good reason for either the Defendant or [redacted] to use ChatGPT in this case. Both struck me as sophisticated people... Both the Defendant and [redacted] are sufficiently technically adept to have used ChatGPT. They must have been able to use the spelling and grammar checking facility in Word (which the Defendant used to prepare his first draft) and in whatever word processing programme [redacted] used to prepare her first draft."

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Live Facial Recognition, AI Bias and the Equality Questions in R (Thompson and Carlo) v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis

live facial recognition

"207. The Commission emphasises that the world has seen the rapid development of artificial intelligence very recently with risks that, unless constrained by domestic and international law, States may use digital technologies to suppress dissent. In the domestic context, the uses to which LFR may be put, and the technology which supports it, will doubtless evolve but this claim is concerned with the terms of the Policy under challenge and (as we have said) its lawfulness now. We see no reason to take a different approach to Bridges."

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