{"id":1194257,"date":"2023-10-19T14:53:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T18:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1194257"},"modified":"2023-10-19T14:53:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T18:53:11","slug":"fugees-rapper-pras-accuses-his-lawyer-of-using-ai-in-closing-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1194257","title":{"rendered":"Fugees rapper Pras accuses his lawyer of using AI in closing arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rapper \u201cPras\u201d Michel, one-third of the legendary hip-hop group The Fugees, accused<\/a> his lawyer from a recent federal criminal case of using AI in his closing arguments. Ars Technica<\/em> reports<\/a> that the \u201cGhetto Supastar\u201d artist claims his one-time attorney, David Kenner, used an AI program with which the lawyer potentially had a financial interest. Pras, whose legal name is Prakazrel Samuel Michel, was found<\/a> guilty in April of 10 counts of conspiring and acting as an unregistered foreign government agent and faces up to 20 years in prison. The rapper is seeking a new trial.<\/p>\n

Pras\u2019 motion for a new trial says Kenner \u201cused an experimental artificial intelligence (AI) program to draft the closing argument, ignoring the best arguments and conflating the charged schemes, and he then publicly boasted that the AI program \u2018turned hours or days of legal work into seconds.\u2019\u201d That quote was pulled from a promotional article<\/a> for EyeLevel.AI, \u201clitigation assistance technology\u201d that lists an entity called CaseFile Connect as a launch partner. The motion says CaseFile Connect\u2019s principal address is the same as Kenner\u2019s law firm.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is now apparent that Kenner and his co-counsel appear to have had an undisclosed financial stake in the AI program, and they experimented with it during Michel\u2019s trial so they could issue a press release afterward promoting the program\u2014a clear conflict of interest,\u201d Pras\u2019 motion alleges.<\/p>\n

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The Fugee claims Kenner\u2019s use of the AI tool led him to make embarrassing musical misattributions in his closing arguments. It accuses the lawyer of attributing the lyrics \u201cEvery single day, every time I pray, I will be missing you\u201d to Pras\u2019 group, The Fugees. (That line was from Puff Daddy and Faith Evans\u2019s 1997 Biggie Smalls tribute \u201cI\u2019ll Be Missing You.\u201d) The motion also alleges Kenner credited Michel\u2019s 1998 solo hit \u201cGhetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)\u201d to The Fugees.<\/p>\n

In addition to the AI accusations, the motion alleges that Kenner was \u201cineffective\u201d and that his actions \u201cseverely prejudiced the defense.\u201d It says the attorney \u201cfailed to familiarize himself with the charged statutes, causing him to overlook critical weaknesses in the Government\u2019s case.\u201d In addition, it accuses Kenner of failing to understand the facts or allegations while outsourcing trial prep and strategy to contract attorneys at a friend\u2019s e-discovery company (among other allegations).<\/p>\n

Pras was found guilty in April of funneling money from Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. Prosecutors insisted Pras donated the money for Low, while the rapper argued he was only trying to help the businessman take a photo with Obama. Pras then allegedly tried to quash a DOJ investigation and influence an extradition case.<\/p>\n

If Pras\u2019 complaint sounds familiar, it parallels the \u201cChatGPT lawyer\u201d Steven Schwartz, who cited fictional cases<\/a> as an erroneous precedent in a legal document. Schwartz, his associate Peter LoDuca and their law firm Levidow, Levidow and Oberman were fined $5,000<\/a> for having \u201cabandoned their responsibilities\u201d in the case. Schwartz claimed he used the chatbot to \u201csupplement\u201d his research while insisting he was \u201cunaware of the possibility that [ChatGPT\u2019s] content could be false.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/fugees-rapper-pras-accuses-his-lawyer-of-using-ai-in-closing-arguments-185311864.html?src=rss
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Rapper \u201cPras\u201d Michel, one-third of the legendary hip-hop group The Fugees, accused his lawyer from a recent federal criminal case of using AI in his closing arguments. Ars Technica reports that the \u201cGhetto Supastar\u201d artist claims his one-time attorney, David … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1194257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}