A defendant tried to use an AI avatar in a legal appeal. It didn't work

A 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.  A 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.  It’s the latest example of artificial intelligence tools trickling their way into courtrooms.  Within seconds of the video starting, Justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels called for it to stop, asking whether the avatar was counsel for the case source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/judge-derides-defendant-using-ai-avatar-legal-appeal?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound