Attorneys for MyPillow's Mike Lindell accused of using AI to prepare court filing

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5. I'm not really sure how you utilize AI to write a document, as I've never used it.

From what I’ve seen, you say “Write me a paper on XYZ topic”, and off it goes. I think the problem here is that the lawyers didn’t go through the brief, look up the cases, see if they exist, if the holdings were what AI said they were, if the citations were correct, and if the cases were still good law.

Virtually everybody utilizes computer research. Forty years ago you had to formulate a Boolean search in Westlaw. Now you can formulate your search in plain language. “What is the statute of limitations for assault?” “What are the elements of burglary?” I guess that’s a form of AI, and a great timesaver over using the books.

But you still have to pull up the cases to verify things, and having done that, you have to use Shepard’s to make sure the case hasn’t been overturned. Lindell’s problem is they skipped the verification work.

You don’t tell a court “In the seminal case of Smith v. Jones when the case doesn’t exist, or tell the court the case can be found at 353 F.2d 275, when it’s actually 458 F.2d 375, or tell the court the Sixth Circuit held thus and so when it did no such thing.

Apparently, AI made a great argument based on quicksand. It’s always easier to win an argument if you get to make shit up. Unfortunately for them, you’re not allowed to do that.