SC Flags Hallucinations in AI Petitions; Cites Fake Quotes and Made-up Verdicts
The bench made the observations while hearing a PIL filed by academician Roop Rekha Verma seeking guidelines on political speeches
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed serious concern over a growing trend of lawyers filing petitions drafted with AI tools that contain non-existent judgments like ‘Mercy vs Mankind’.
A three-judge bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said: "We are alarmed to reflect that some lawyers have started using AI to draft petitions. It is absolutely uncalled for."
The apex court made the observations while hearing a PIL filed by academician Roop Rekha Verma seeking guidelines on political speeches.
Justice Nagarathna said she recently came across a non-existent citation, ‘Mercy vs Mankind’. The CJI referred to a similar instance and said that in Justice Dipankar Datta's court, “not one but a series of such judgments were cited.”
Justice Nagarathna said that at times, the judgments referred to were correct, but fake quotes were attributed to those verdicts, making it very difficult to verify the contents.
