Written by: Haim Ravia, Dotan Hammer
Despite the Israeli Supreme Court’s landmark ruling last month which criticized the irresponsible use of generative AI to draft documents in legal proceedings, litigants continue to submit court filings citing AI-hallucinated court cases.
Several days after the previous ruling on the same subject matter, the Supreme Court outright rejected a petition that once again included AI hallucinations. The rejected petition sought a stay of enforcement of a law that facilitated stray dog euthanasia.
The Supreme Court found that the plaintiff’s attorney’s conduct misled the Court but chose not to sanction the attorney, due to the fresh ruling a few weeks earlier. However, the Court warned that future cases would face harsher consequences.
Unsurprisingly, less than weeks later, a debtor submitted an application citing nonexistent court cases, with the Enforcement and Collection Authority. The debtor apologized, yet incredibly, his apologizing pleadings also included further AI-hallucinated court cases. The Enforcement and Collection Authority, and imposed a 1,000 NIS ($270) fine on the debtor.
Click here to read the Supreme Court’s decision (in Hebrew)
