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A judge ordered Mike Lindell's lawyers to pay $3000 each in fines for using AI to create court documents. The documents contained mistakes, including errors when quoting cases and citations to non-existent cases.
Judge Nina Y. Wang of the U.S. District Court in Denver found 30 errors in the filings.
But how did the court find out about the use of AI?
Wang asked one of Lindell's lawyers Christopher Kachouroff if the motion was "generated by generative artificial intelligence?"
Kachouroff responded, "Not initially. Initially, I did an outline for myself, and I drafted a motion, and then we ran it through AI."
Wang then asked if he had checked the documents due to the errors. Kachouroff admitted he did not double-check them.
Last month, a jury found Lindell guilty of defaming a former employee of a leading voting equipment company, Dominion Voting System.
Eric Coomer sued after Lindell called him a traitor and accused him of stealing the 2020 election on his online media platform. Coomer was the security and product strategy director at Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems
The jury ordered Lindell and his media company, known as Frankspeech, to pay Coomer $2.3 million in damages. Coomer originally asked for $62.7 million.