Put A Bird On It, LLC v. Seattle Arena Holdings, LLC

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2 While not germane to our substantive analysis, the court notes that appellant's opening brief included several erroneous citations that the responsible attorneys at Corr|Downs PLLC have since indicated were generated by “AI-based search engines.” The citations for these cases appear to be a compilation of (a) a real or fictitious caption, (b) citations to other entirely different cases, and (c) legal principles that cannot reasonably be found in the cited cases. The conduct leading to these citations falls below our expectations of counsel, particularly since it is now well known in the legal community that AI resources can generate erroneous citations and false quotations. Understanding the gravity of this conduct, the responsible attorneys have taken steps to remediate the situation, have apologized to the court, and have represented that they are implementing additional quality-control protocols (as all lawyers should) to ensure this does not happen again.

Authorities cited in the passage: AI-based search engines