LAW FIRM PAID MILLIONS TO DEFEND INMATE FACES SANCTIONS FOR USING FAKE CASE LAWS THAT WERE PRODUCED BY AI

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Well AI continues to get in the news, but none
of the way you wanted to. In less than a
year and a half. Frankie Johnson, a man incocerated at
the William E. Donaldson Prison outside Birmenham, says he was
stabbed around twenty times in December of twenty nineteen. Johnson
says he was stabbed at least nine times in his
housing unit. In March of twenty twenty, an officer handcuffed

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him too a desk, follow in a group therapy meeting,
and left the unit, which another prisoner came in and
stabbed him five times. In November the same year, Johnson
says he was handcuffed by an officer and brought to
the prison room with another prisoner attacked him five to
six times, stabbing him. According to Johnson, one of the
attackers officers had actually encouraged his attacker, and Johnson filed

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a lawsuit against Alabama prison officials for failing to keep
him safe, rampant violence, and understaffing. To defend the case,
of Alabama Attorney General's office turned to a law firm
that for years has been paid millions of dollars by
the state to defend its trouble systems, called Butler Snow.
State officials have even praised Butler Snow for its experience
in defending prison cases, and specifically William LUNs were a

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head of the constitutional civil rights litigation practice. But now
that firm is facing sanctions by the federal judge overseeing
Johnson's case after an attorney at the firm, working with
Lunch for excited cases generated by AI, and the cases
didn't even exist. It is a growing number of instances
in which attorneys around the country have faced consequences for
including false AI generated information and official legal filings. A

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database attempting to tract the prevalence of the cases identified
over one hundred and six instances around the globe in
which courts have found AI hallucinations in court. Last year,
an attorney was suspended for one year from practicing law
in the Federal Middle District of Florida after committing after
a committee found he had cited fabricated AI generated cases
in California. Earlier in the month of FED judge order

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a firm to pay more than thirty thousand I legal
fees after it included false AI research. At the hearing
in Birmingham on Wednesday in Jarhadson's case, the US district
judge said that she was considering a wide range of sanctions,
including fines, mandated continuing education, referrals to licensing organizations, and
suspensions against Butler Snow after the attorney Matthew Reeves, used

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chatchypt to add false citations to filings relating to ongoing
deposition and discovery disputes. She suggested that so far the
disciplinary actions that have been meeted out around the country
have not gone far enough. The current case is proof
positive that those sanctions were insufficient. She says, reeves to
attempted to take full responsibility. I was aware of the
limitations on the use of AI. I did not comply

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with policy. Attorneys with Butler Snow were appointed by the
Alabama Attorney's Office. Lasford, who holds the contract with the
state of the case, said that he had been conducting
a review of prior filings to make sure that there
were no more instances of false site. So crazy story
there in regards to how this is being used in

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our legal system, and that's where the sad thing is.
There's a lot of stuff going on here that shouldn't
be happening. In addition to the Johnson case, Lunsford and
Butler Snow of contracts to work on several civil rights
cases against the Alabama Department of Corrections, including one brought
up under the Department of Justice under Trump. The contract
for that case, the loan is worth nearly fifteen million

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dollars over two years. At one point, some law makers
in all Alabama have questioned the amount of the State
of spending on the firm to defend the cases, but
it doesn't appeal with the mistake this week has shaken
the Attorney General's confidence in the Butler Snow firm