The bank’s lawyers said they had not cited the six false authorities. The Supreme Court recorded that the tribunal obtained them through its own research. Yet the judgment’s only express regulatory direction concerns disciplinary rules for advocates.
The Supreme Court chose an unusually grave metaphor for what happens when artificial intelligence’s falsehoods enter judicial decisions. Fabricated precedents, it said, are “like the release of methyl isocyanate in the province of law and justice: invisible, insidious, and catastrophic by the time anyone notices”. Methyl isocyanate was the gas that killed thousands in Bhopal in 1984.
The comparison appears in the court’s July 2 judgment in Pooja Ramesh Singh v. Jammu and Kashmir Bank Ltd….