Artificial intelligence is here, and it’s wreaking havoc on court rooms throughout the US.

The latest AI law blunder comes from the Maryland appellate court, where a family lawyer representing a mother in a custody battle was caught filing court briefs cooked up with ChatGPT.

The Daily Record, which publishes summaries of Maryland court opinions, reported that the mother’s lawyer submitted a complaint for divorce gushing with AI hallucinated legal citations which made it into the court record.

Like other ChatGPT legal muckups, many of the citations referenced case law which simply did not exist. The filing also contained existing legal citations which contradicted the arguments made in the brief.

In his defense, the attorney, Adam Hyman, said that he “was not involved directly in the r

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