Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
https://jetstream.security/insights/brazilian-court-sanctions-prompt-injection-filing/I’m not a lawyer, but I’m curious if it would also be a fineable offense to ask for this directly. Obviously nobody would ever do that… it would come off as someone thinking they had Jedi powers or something. But it doesn’t seem to me (again, not a lawyer) that this would be illegal.
So why is it when you ask it of AI?
That paragraph was never intended to be read by the judge or opposing counsel, it’s a deliberate attempt at messing with the tools they use to analyse the filing. The fact that it’s white text on a white background makes it an incontrovertible attempt at deceit.
We can discuss how wise it is to use AI to analyse legal documents for you, but that doesn’t change how outright deceit should be handled by the court.
It's not illegal to ask someone to send you money. So why is it illegal when I ask their AI to send me money from their bank account?! Nothing in this world makes sense!
There are probably certain humans who would follow commands as given, perhaps a child or child-like?
I am a lawyer myself. I recently had an order that practically looks and smells ai generated.
I sent the output to Turnitin and it returned almost every line turned out ai generated.
Heck, 4 paragraphs were the same text reworked as a filler.
I filed a second appeal and the case has not been picked up.
My question is, if the judge is using an ai to decide a case, and the judge has outsourced their "judgement" to ai, I, as a lawyer should be able to influence that.
One could argue " well that's the judge's discretion, who decides" but I don't.
When I appear for a client before a judge, I "expect" that judge to apply their own mind, and only their own mind without any bias. Judge offloading their rights imo renders them biased and I should be able to influence the other person (or the ai)
Not that I have done it before. Just saying
Not having read the article, but I feel this is a risky stand for the court to take. It makes sense that you should stop others from impeding your review system - however you implement it, yet "prompt injection" is hard to define. What is stopping the court from fining people for a "logical argument" in future filings?