律师因谋杀案上诉中使用AI虚构证人被罚5000美元
原标题：Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
AI 摘要
新墨西哥州最高法院对律师 Stephen Aarons 处以 5000 美元罚款并判其藐视法庭，原因是他在为一起谋杀案定罪上诉提交的 AI 生成简报中包含了 AI 虚构的证人和虚假的警方证词。Aarons 承认使用 ChatGPT 并以为能生成“无懈可击的摘要”，法官质问其是否关注新闻，并指出律师依赖 AI 幻觉已是每日头条问题。此事反映出律师使用 AI 工具增多后，法院发现 AI 伪造引用的案例也在增加。
正文节选
New Mexico’s Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client’s murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for failing to “verify the factual claims and legal authority in his AI-generated brief.” Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case A justice asked, ‘Counsel, do you watch the news?’ when a