Adam Hyman told the three Maryland appellate judges he did not intend on taking up much of their time.
In fact, Hyman said, there were moments when he considered simply relying on the filings he had submitted in the appeal, which stemmed from a divorce case in Harford County.
“Well, there’s an issue here apart from the merits,” Appellate Judge Kathryn Grill Graeff said, “with the brief.”
The filing, she noted, cited numerous cases that did not exist or stood for a different proposition.
And that’s a serious problem,” Graeff said. “So we would like you to address that, and what actions did you take?”
The source of the problem? Artificial intelligence.
Hyman, a family law attorney in Bel Air, said he was not aware his office had used AI. But he said he had to take responsibility because he submitted the brief under his name.
The phenomenon of lawyers using generative AI platforms only for them to produce citations that are incorrect or do not exist has emerged as an issue in the legal profession.
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