New Mexico Supreme Court Fines Lawyer $5,000 Over AI-Fabricated Witnesses in Murder Appeal
Stephen Aarons was held in contempt after filing an appeal containing fake witnesses and fabricated police testimony reportedly generated by artificial intelligence.
New Mexico's Supreme Court has fined a lawyer $5,000 and held him in contempt after he submitted an appeal in a murder case that included fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony, according to a report from Reuters.
The court's filing, issued on Wednesday, identifies the attorney as Stephen Aarons, who was representing a client in an appeal of a murder conviction. According to the report, the fabricated material in the appeal was generated using artificial intelligence.
The court stated that Aarons failed to verify the factual claims and legal citations included in his filing before submitting it, according to Reuters.
The case adds to a growing number of instances in which lawyers have faced sanctions for submitting court documents containing AI-generated errors, including fabricated case citations and, in this instance, invented witnesses and testimony.
Details on Aarons' response to the sanction, as well as further specifics of the underlying murder case, were not included in the available reporting.
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