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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Cecilia Nowell

California prosecutors’ office used AI to file inaccurate motion in criminal case

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Lawyers for Kyle Kjoller identified similar errors in a filing by the prosecutors’ office in another case. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

A California prosecutors’ office used artificial intelligence to file a motion in at least one criminal case, which contained errors known as “hallucinations”.

A prosecutor at the Nevada county district attorney’s office in northern California “recently used artificial intelligence in preparing a filing, which resulted in an inaccurate citation,” district attorney Jesse Wilson said in a statement to the Sacramento Bee. “Once the error was discovered, the filing was immediately withdrawn.”

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