Ice Miller partner Michael Ott was quoted in the Law.com article, “'Figuring Out How to Deal With This': How Are Courts Grappling With Disciplining AI‑Hallucinations?”

The article included:

Michael W. Ott, a partner at Ice Miller in Chicago, said some courts appear hesitant to take formal disciplinary action, given the quickly evolving technological landscape.

“I think courts are still figuring out how to deal with this, with the specific facts, the cases in front of them. I really think, at the end of the day, this isn’t a new phenomenon. Courts had to deal with misrepresentations, omissions and competency issues for a long time," Ott said. "On some level, they have a perfectly satisfactory framework for how to deal with these things. It’s just a new type of error that’s falling within it.”

Lawyers are also being asked to think differently and notice errors they haven't historically looked for in the work they're producing. Ott noted senior attorneys, in particular, have spent their entire careers reviewing associate work and looking for errors that junior associates typically make, not for mistakes made by AI.

“AI makes errors that are completely different in type from what associates make. An associate might misrepresent a case, but it’s unlikely they’re going to invent one whole cloth," Ott said. “The kind of heuristic that attorneys need to use and that they’re used to using for reviewing work product that is generated is changing, and it’s changing very fast."

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