DOJ Attorney Reportedly Used AI to File Brief With Purportedly Fabricated Quotes and Misstated Case Holdings
Description
In Fivehouse v. U.S. Department of Defense, Assistant U.S. Attorney Rudy Renfer filed a response brief that the court reportedly said contained fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings. Renfer reportedly admitted he had used AI to help draft the inaccurate filing after losing an earlier draft. The court reportedly also identified similar fabricated quotations in other filings signed by Renfer.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- united-states-attorney's-office-for-the-eastern-district-of-north-carolina
- rudy-renfer
Alleged Developers
- large-language-model-developers
Harmed Parties
- judicial-integrity
- epistemic-integrity
- derence-v.-fivehouse
Classification
Risk Domain
MisinformationRisk Subdomain
3.1. False or misleading information
MIT Risk Profile
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