Supreme Court Chastises B.C. Lawyer for Citing AI-Generated Cases
Published on February 28, 2024
A Supreme Court judge has reprimanded a British Columbia lawyer for citing two AI-generated “hallucinations” in a legal filing and has ordered her to compensate opposing counsel for their time. Justice David Masuhara, in his Feb. 26 ruling, ordered lawyer Chong Ke to personally compensate the lawyers representing her client’s ex-wife. Judge Masuhara said it was “appropriate” for Ms. Ke to pay opposing counsel for the time it took them to discover the cases she planned to reference had been created by ChatGPT, a free AI system that allows users to refine conversations and automate tasks. Although Ms. Ke withdrew the AI-generated cases when she realized they were fake, Judge Masuhara said he was troubled by the occurrence....