The MyPillow Guy's Lawyers Used AI in Court and You'll Never Guess How That Turned Out

The MyPillow Guy's Lawyers Used AI in Court and You'll Never Guess How That Turned Out "I'm in ruins." We all remember Mike Lindell, the disgraced MyPillow founder who lost everything fighting to prove — against insurmountable evidence to the contrary — that the 2020 US election had somehow been stolen from Donald Trump. Well, he's in the news again — this time for using AI to file his legal briefs. As The New Republic reported, a federal judge has accused Lindell of filing a legal document with "nearly 30 defective citations," which one of his attorneys, Christopher Kachouroff, wrote "utilizing generative artificial intelligence." Go figure: the brief was full of misquotes and miscited cases, sometimes referencing case law that simply didn't exist — AI had hallucinated them, as the tech is prone to do in order to "complete" its prompt. "If you type a legal question into the Google search function, then generative AI is all too ready to answer," explained legal columnist Virginia ... Read full article.