AI And The Lazy Judge

U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate in Mississippi used AI in a court order with resulted in bizarre reasoning. 

The order, issued July 20, was factually inaccurate — naming defendants and plaintiffs that weren’t parties to the case, misquoting state law and referencing a case that doesn’t exist — which led the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office to raise concerns.

Wingate then replaced the order with a corrected version, wiped the flawed order from the docket, and denied a request from the Attorney General’s Office to restore the original order with errors to the public docket. He refused to explain the errors, calling them “clerical” mistakes.

This is just lazy but I have no doubt the laziness has nothing to do with AI. I'd wager Wingate's other rulings, rulings where he did not use AI, reflect a similar level of illogical reasoning, albeit perhaps less obviously.