Extract from Emily Cousins’s article “Connecticut Supreme Court Reckons With AI Hallucinations”
The Connecticut Supreme Court waded into new territory in a hearing last week after AI hallucinations appeared in briefing before the high court.
Associate Justice Steve Ecker, co-chair of the Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Connecticut Legal System, said a motion for sanctions against plaintiff’s counsel in a landlord-tenant dispute is the first time the court had to grapple with the issue.
“The problem with AI,” Ecker said, “we just don’t know what’s true anymore. It further plunges us into this world where it’s very difficult to distinguish fact from fiction.”
Lawyers representing landlord Kosel Equity—Ian H. Gottlieb, David E. Rosenberg and Paul J. Small of GLG Law—admitted to using generative AI through platforms Lexis for legal research and ChatGPT to organize and format the content, however, the AI created errors in citations and references, according to court documents. The high court ordered the plaintiff to file a memorandum explaining how and when the errors occurred.
