"AI Declared in Court: Judge Mandates Validation".

Judge Brantley Starr, a federal judge in Texas, is taking steps to ensure no lawyers in his court repeat the mistake of allowing an AI to make their legal arguments. He has added a requirement for all attorneys appearing in his court that they certify that no portion of their filing was drafted by generative artificial intelligence, or if it was, that it was checked for accuracy by a human being. The requirement is in response to an incident last week, in which an attorney allowed ChatGPT to “supplement” his legal research in a filing and provided six cases that were completely fabricated by the language model. Judge Starr is also requiring that any party wanting to use generative AI must be prepared to justify themselves. This new rule is an important reminder that the technology, while powerful and potentially helpful, must be declared and checked for accuracy.