Another Oregon attorney has been bamboozled by the incorrect output of artificial intelligence — and the state’s appellate court has slapped him with a record fine.
The Oregon Court of Appeals issued a $10,000 fine to Bill Ghiorso, a Salem-based civil attorney, after determining he signed his name to a legal brief containing 15 bogus citations and nine quotes “that had been contrived from thin air.”
Ghiorso challenged the fee, arguing he didn’t “knowingly” include false material in his filings, but instead had relied on a paralegal’s research. But the appellate court rejected that argument…