Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

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新墨西哥州最高法院对律师 Stephen Aarons 处以 5,000 美元罚款并认定其藐视法庭，因其在一宗谋杀案上诉文书中包含了 AI 虚构的证人名单和警方证词。裁决文件指出，该律师未核实 AI 生成内容中的事实主张与法律依据，文书中甚至捏造了枪手衣着等虚假细节。此案反映出司法系统正加大对生成式 AI 幻觉未尽审核责任的实质惩戒力度。

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New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to "verify the factual claims and legal authority in his AI-generated brief."

The filing says the brief "contained false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses," along with "false testimony" about the shooter's clothing and appearance. Justice C. Shannon Bacon questioned how Aarons wasn't aware of the risks posed by AI during an August hearing …

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