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"The Todal" <the_todal@icloud.com> wrote in message news:ng0199Fi2quU1@mid.individual.net...

Lawyers are supposed to be reasonably intelligent. I wonder what his IQ score might be ....

https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/foreign-lawyer-produced-ai-generated-false-citations-at-sdt/5127825.article

The output of large language AI can be so very convincing; that's the problem

I very much doubt he will now ever be able to cure himself of his "addiction"; any more than any others who will fall under its spell, initially without getting caught.

Whether any of them are worth their fees as a result; most definitely not.

While IMO the "arguments" he uses in mitigation, are just as much an
insult to people's intelligence, as anything else

The very fact that he thinks he can excuse such behaviour, would
in my view argue against his ever being employed in any position
of trust, at all.


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A foreign lawyer has been banned after trying to defend himself before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal using AI-generated false citations. Abishek Kumar was facing disciplinary proceedings after his criminal conviction for knowingly employing an immigrant who was not allowed to work in the UK.

He then filed a written answer to the Solicitors Regulation Authority's charges which contained misleading quotations and citations generated by AI. To compound this, when he was asked to explain this response, he used AI to prepare an email which contained further mistakes and erroneous citations. The
SDT stressed that Kumar would have been struck off the register of foreign lawyers for either allegation.

Kumar later admitted he had again used AI to draft the explanation email and apologised for the errors it contained. He told the tribunal he never intended
to be dishonest and described himself as someone who was used to being supervised and was unaware of the issue of false case citations in the legal sector. Whilst dishonesty was not alleged, the tribunal did not otherwise accept these submissions.

Kumar argued against a strike-off due to health and personal issues and the fact he was the principal financial provider for his family. The SRA submitted
that the misuse of AI had serious implications for the administration of justice and public confidence in the legal system.

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