{"id":126590,"date":"2025-04-07T05:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126590"},"modified":"2025-04-07T05:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:17:15","slug":"a-defendant-tried-to-use-an-ai-avatar-in-a-legal-appeal-it-didnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=126590","title":{"rendered":"A defendant tried to use an AI avatar in a legal appeal. It didn&#039;t work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsA defendant in a New York appeals court has been slammed by a judge for using an artificial intelligence avatar to represent himself in a recent case.\u00a0<br \/>\nA New York appeals court faced an unusual situation in late March when Jerome Dewald, representing himself in an employment dispute, submitted an AI-generated avatar to present his legal arguments via video, a livestream of the hearing shows.\u00a0<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the latest example of artificial intelligence tools trickling their way into courtrooms.\u00a0<br \/>\nWithin seconds of the video starting, Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels called for it to stop, asking whether the avatar was counsel for the case.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cI generated that,\u201d 74-year-old Dewald responded, adding, \u201cThat is not a real person.\u201d<br \/>\nThe judge appeared displeased, retorting, \u201cIt would have been nice to know that when you made your application,\u201d stating that the defendant had previously appeared before the court and been able to testify verbally in the past.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t appreciate being misled,\u201d the judge added.\u00a0<br \/>\nShe asked the defendant if he was suffering from an ailment that prevented him from articulating before adding, \u201cYou are not going to use this courtroom as a launch for your business,\u201d and then yelling, \u201cShut that off,\u201d pointing to the video screen.\u00a0<br \/>\nAppellate Division, First Department Stream. Source: YouTubeDewald later apologized, explaining he thought the AI avatar would deliver his arguments more eloquently than he could.<br \/>\nSpeaking to The Associated Press, Dewald said he applied to the court for permission to play a prerecorded video, then used a San Francisco tech company to create the AI avatar.\u00a0<br \/>\nHe originally tried to generate a digital replica of himself but was prevented by time constraints before the hearing. \u201cThe court was really upset about it,\u201d Dewald conceded, adding, \u201cThey chewed me up pretty good.\u201d<br \/>\nRelated: Meta&#8217;s Llama 4 puts US back in lead to \u2018win the AI race\u2019 \u2014 David Sacks<br \/>\nAI entering the legal world<br \/>\nThe incident highlights growing challenges as AI enters the legal world.\u00a0<br \/>\nIn 2023, a New York lawyer was blasted for citing fake cases generated by ChatGPT in a legal brief as part of a lawsuit against a Columbian airline.<br \/>\nIn March, Arizona\u2019s Supreme Court began using two AI-generated avatars, similar to the one that Dewald used in New York, to summarize court rulings for the public.<br \/>\nIn September, the US Federal Trade Commission took action against companies it claimed misled consumers using AI, including a firm that offered an AI lawyer.<br \/>\nMagazine: \u2018Chernobyl\u2019 needed to wake people to AI risks, Studio Ghibli memes: AI Eye<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/judge-derides-defendant-using-ai-avatar-legal-appeal?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsA defendant in a New York appeals court has been slammed by a judge for using an artificial intelligence avatar to represent himself in a recent case.\u00a0 A&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126590"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}