Chatbots Are ‘Word Guessers,’ Judge Says In Sanctioning Attorneys $1,485

( August 5, 2025, 8:50 AM EDT) -- FLINT, Mich. — Plaintiffs’ counsel must compensate defense counsel $1,485 for time spent responding to briefing with artificial intelligence-generated fake quotes, a federal judge in Michigan said in imposing sanctions and explaining that AI chatbots are more like “word guessers” designed to output probabilistic text than AIs featured in science fiction novels....