The New Mexico Supreme Court has found Santa Fe attorney Stephen Aarons guilty of contempt of court. The veteran lawyer, in an appeal for a client convicted of murder, submitted a formal document with content generated by OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT tool. The lawyer used the popular chatbot to attempt to abbreviate lengthy court transcripts, then submitted the resulting summary to the court without any prior review or reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The document contained statements from non-existent people and fabricated claims incorrectly attributed to a real witness. The court\u2019s response was extremely harsh. Judge C. Shannon Bacon publicly asked the lawyer if he even follows the news, as fabricated information or \u201challucinations\u201d of artificial intelligence in legal documents have repeatedly made headlines. She added that the lawyer either consciously ignored the phenomenon or recklessly played with the fate of his client. Aarons, who has been in the legal profession for more than four decades, admitted his mistake and said he had mistakenly assumed that the software would produce a reliable summary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to the public warning, the court ordered the lawyer to pay a fine of 5,000 euros, which will be allocated to the client protection fund, and also referred the case to the body for disciplinary supervision of lawyers. The case testifies to how risky blind trust in new technologies is in the legal sector. At the same time, serious doubts arise about the professionalism of individuals who submit key documents without verification, as such lapses directly threaten the rights of the defendants. This is not an isolated case, as several lawyers have recently faced sanctions for submitting unverified artificial intelligence materials in courts.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vrhovno sodi\u0161\u010de ameri\u0161ke zvezne dr\u017eave Nova Mehika je spoznalo odvetnika Stephena Aaronsa iz Santa Feja za krivega raz\u017ealitve sodi\u0161\u010da. Izku\u0161eni pravnik je v prito\u017ebenem postopku za stranko, ki je bila obsojena zaradi umora, oddal uradni dokument z vsebino, ki jo je ustvarilo orodje ChatGPT podjetja OpenAI. Odvetnik je s pomo\u010djo priljubljenega klepetalnika posku\u0161al skraj\u0161ati obse\u017ene […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-8163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racunalnistvo-telefonija","tag-umetna-inteligenca"],"acf":{"subtitle":"","heading":"","summary":"Odvetnik je prejeli kazen v vi\u0161ini 5.000 evrov zaradi uporabe nepreverjenih besedil orodja ChatGPT v prito\u017ebi za umor. Dokument je vseboval izmi\u0161ljene pri\u010de, primer pa je bil predan tudi disciplinski komisiji.","thumbnail_small":"https:\/\/racunalniske-novice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Gemini_Generated_Image_9mgpxg9mgpxg9mgp-560x315.jpg","thumbnail_large":"https:\/\/racunalniske-novice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Gemini_Generated_Image_9mgpxg9mgpxg9mgp-1024x765.jpg","thumbnail_caption":"Foto: ChatGPT","gallery":"","video_gallery":null,"author":"","links":null,"sources":[{"title":"notebookcheck","url":"https:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/Supreme-court-issues-fine-to-lawyer-for-using-ChatGPT-in-murder-trial.1397097.0.html"}],"skip_language":[]},"yoast_head":"\n