A Baldwin County attorney has been fined and reprimanded by a federal judge for using artificial intelligence to draft court filings that later contained multiple inaccurate case citations.

According to Fox News , U.S. District Judge Terry Moorer of the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama criticized Loxley-based attorney James A. Johnson in an 18-page order.

“The Court has no difficulty finding that Mr. Johnson’s misconduct was more than mere recklessness. … The insertion of bogus citations is not a mere typographical error, nor the subject of reasonable debate,” Moorer wrote in the order issued Oct. 10. “It is just wrong.”

“Somehow the message still has not been hammered home as the epidemic of citing fake cases continues unabated,” he continued. “It has become c

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