Mealey's Artificial Intelligence
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March 03, 2025
Microsoft Identifies Individuals Allegedly Involved In Unlawful AI Conduct
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Microsoft Corp. filed an amended complaint identifying four individuals previously listed as anonymous defendants who allegedly used the company’s artificial intelligence systems for unlawful purposes, including creating images of misogyny and deepfake intimate images of celebrities.
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March 03, 2025
Attorney’s AI Misuse Violated Rule 11, Judge Says In Imposing $2,500 Sanction
PHILADELPHIA — Like many technologies, reliance on artificial intelligence can assist users, but without appropriate human scrutiny its use quickly collapses into negligence, a federal judge in Pennsylvania said in sanctioning an attorney $2,500 for using six wrong or fake cites in a case over an investment gone bad.
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February 28, 2025
Magistrate Recommends Granting Judgment In Libel Row Over LinkedIn ‘Doo-Doo’ Post
NEW YORK — A New York federal magistrate judge recommended granting summary judgment to the defendant, a former officer in a company once owned by the plaintiff, a founder of a venture capital company, in a libel suit over the defendant’s posts on LinkedIn that purportedly gave the plaintiff the surname of “Doo-Doo head” and accused him of lack of knowledge about artificial intelligence, finding that the comment regarding AI “is non-actionable opinion.”
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February 28, 2025
Judge Won’t Let AI Copyright Plaintiffs Set Search Terms
SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs’ efforts at relitigating issues they lost undermines rulings designed to prevent delays, and the parties appear to be “taking turns to simply conjure up something about which to fight,” a judge overseeing consolidated federal copyright litigation in California involving artificial intelligence said Feb. 27 in denying requested discovery.
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February 26, 2025
Magistrate Judge Recommends Sanctions Of $15,000 For AI-Created Fake Cites
INDIANAPOLIS — A federal magistrate judge in Indiana recommended $15,000 as a sanction for an attorney who cited artificial intelligence-created cases, saying there was “simply no reason” to fall short of federal rules by not checking the accuracy of the cites.
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February 26, 2025
Judge Revokes Pro Hac Vice, Fines Attorneys Involved In AI-Hallucinated Cites
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — When done properly, artificial intelligence offers promise in the legal world, but where the failure to follow federal rules governing signing and submitting motions allows for the creation of a brief with AI-created fake cites, the situation warrants revoking pro hac vice status and imposing various fines, a federal judge in Wyoming said.
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February 25, 2025
Judge: Media Outlet Alleges Injury, Copyright Removal For Single DMCA Claim
NEW YORK — While Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) protections don’t exactly match with historical analogs, the act hews closely enough to protected property rights to provide injury, and a news organization adequately alleges that OpenAI entities removed copyright management information (CMI) from articles during the training of artificial intelligence, a federal judge in New York said while dismissing the remainder of the DMCA claims against OpenAI and Microsoft.
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February 25, 2025
Education Publisher Launches Sherman Act Suit Over Google AI Answers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Online education publisher Chegg Inc. filed a Sherman Act suit against Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. on Feb. 24 over their artificial intelligence search results, claiming the tech companies’ AI-powered overviews expand their existing choke-hold on generative search to online publishing.
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February 24, 2025
District Of Columbia Judges Debate AI In Opinion Nixing Animal Cruelty Conviction
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A judge in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals dissenting from an opinion vacating an animal cruelty conviction noted that artificial intelligence ChatGPT could distinguish between the dangers of leaving a dog in a hot car and leaving one outside on a cold day and that similar common sense could be used by a fact finder, while in a concurring opinion a second judge marveled at the technology’s potential risks and benefits.
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February 21, 2025
Citing ‘Glacial Pace,’ Plaintiffs In AI Copyright Suit Seek To Compel Discovery
SAN FRANCISCO — While the company behind the Claude artificial intelligence promises to produce discovery before upcoming deadlines, its “glacial pace” over the last four months necessitates a court order compelling the production by certain deadlines to ensure that it doesn’t benefit from further delay, plaintiffs in a copyright suit tell a federal judge in California in a Feb. 20 letter brief.
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February 21, 2025
Perplexity AI Says New York Court No Place For Copyright Suit
NEW YORK — A copyright lawsuit challenging an artificial intelligence-assisted search engine doesn’t belong in New York courts, Perplexity AI Inc. told a federal judge there while advocating for dismissal or transfer to a court in San Francisco.
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February 21, 2025
Attorneys Respond After Admitting AI ‘Hallucinated’ Cites In Hoverboard Fire Case
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — In a quartet of filings, attorneys expressed dismay and embarrassment after admitting that artificial intelligence hallucinated citations in a recent motion seeking to exclude evidence and expert testimony and explained to a federal judge in Wyoming the steps taken to help ensure that the mistake is not repeated.
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February 20, 2025
Judge Dismisses With Prejudice Pro Se Complaint Possibly Created With AI
LAS VEGAS — Mistaken quotations and case citations that a plaintiff claims are merely transcription errors more likely indicate that the plaintiff relied on artificial intelligence (AI) in crafting a complaint or simply fabricated cites, a federal judge in Nevada said in dismissing an action with prejudice.
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February 18, 2025
Court Won’t Require Judge To Explain Ruling Excluding AI-Obtained Evidence
CLEVELAND — A trial judge does not need to explain why he suppressed evidence after a suspect successfully argued that it was obtained through a warrant that relied on artificial intelligence facial recognition software that a company itself admits is not reliable, an Ohio appeals court said in denying a motion seeking to direct the judge to issue findings of fact.
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February 18, 2025
Parties To Musk’s Suit Over ChatGPT Funding Seek Dismissal
SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk and his compatriots have no contract with OpenAI entities on which to base claims, have not shown any competitive injury from the artificial intelligence company’s deal with Microsoft Corp. and neither properly allege nor sufficiently point to an injury in fact for their California unfair competition law (UCL) claims, defendants in Musk’s fraud and racketeering suit told a federal judge in California in three motions to dismiss.
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February 14, 2025
Insurer’s Dismissal Motion Partially Denied In Suit Alleging It Illegally Employs AI
MINNEAPOLIS — A federal magistrate judge in Minnesota on Feb. 13 granted in part and denied in part an insurer’s motion to dismiss a class complaint alleging it illegally uses artificial intelligence (AI) to deny elderly insureds medically necessary care based on a model that the insurer knows “has a 90% error rate,” allowing breach of contract and breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing claims to proceed.
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February 13, 2025
Judge Upholds Limits On Depositions, Discovery In ChatGPT Copyright Case
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California denied a motion for relief from a pretrial order, turning away arguments that limits on depositions were improper in such a complex copyright infringement case and that OpenAI entities’ income was relevant evidence in the case.
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February 12, 2025
Federal Circuit Says AI Researcher Again Fails To Show Government Took Research
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has again upheld the dismissal of a pro se complainant’s claims against the U.S. government, rejecting arguments that the government inappropriately used his research into artificial intelligence and that a judge in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims committed judicial misconduct in overseeing the case.
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February 12, 2025
Thomson Reuters Largely Prevails On Summary Judgment In AI Copyright Case
WILMINGTON, Del. — Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH’s headnotes surpass the low bar for originality, and sufficient evidence exists that a competitor actually or substantially copied thousands of them to train its artificial intelligence with the intent to compete in the same market, a federal judge in Delaware said Feb. 11 in largely granting summary judgment.
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February 11, 2025
AI ‘Hallucinated’ Fake Cites In Hoverboard Fire Motion, Plaintiffs Admit To Court
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Expressing embarrassment and saying they will reevaluate firm procedures, counsel for the plaintiffs told a federal judge in Wyoming on Feb. 10 that artificial intelligence did in fact author fake citations in a motion in limine seeking to exclude evidence and expert testimony.
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February 11, 2025
AI Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs Seek Conditional Certification
SAN FRANCISCO — Job seekers who claim they were discriminated against by an artificial intelligence hiring tool asked a federal judge in California to approve conditional certification of the collective action, saying the move will help protect prospective class members and ensure efficient resolution of the case.
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February 10, 2025
Student Says Yale Improperly Suspended Him For AI Use
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A student enrolled in Yale University’s School of Management says in a lawsuit filed in Connecticut federal court that the school failed him for a class and suspended him based on his use of artificial intelligence but did so through the use of AI-detection tools it knows are faulty and without ever actually concluding that AI was used.
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February 07, 2025
Family Dismisses Suit Challenging Punishment In Student AI-Cheating Case
BOSTON — The parents of a student disciplined for using artificial intelligence in a project stipulated to dismissal with prejudice of the claims they filed in a federal court in Massachusetts against the school district and related individuals they accused of failing to inform students about how they could use the novel technology and imposing unduly harsh punishments.
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February 07, 2025
Amici Tell En Banc Court Nonparticipants Can Challenge Procurement Process
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Entities can be an interested party and have the ability to challenge government procurement decisions even when the entity isn’t directly involved in the process, a private company and nonprofit told the en banc Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a case brought by an artificial intelligence image analyzing company.
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February 05, 2025
Attorney Disclaims AI Use, Says Citation Error Is Simple Mix Up
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An attorney representing a woman in an age discrimination suit said he would never use artificial intelligence and that incorrect cites in briefing were the result of confusion arising from the handling of numerous cases and citations.