A former Waterloo woman who was appealing her child support payments has had her case thrown out after it was discovered she used AI which cited fake cases, according to the Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier. Mynesia Anderson, now of Greenville, Mississippi, was ordered to pay $320 per month in child support in 2019. Last year she appealed the order but chose to not get an attorney and instead represent herself. The Iowa Court of Appeals found that her filings included what purported to be direct quotations from at least eight appelate decisions, but those quotes did not actually appear in the decisions. Her briefs also cited two Iowa cases that do no exist and the reporter citations provided were for other states and cases unrelated to the cited propositions. When asked by the court if she used AI, she responded that she was not subject to the court’s jurisdiction because she had asked a friend to help with the brief and reply brief and therefore could not confirm nor deny the assistance of generative artificial intelligence.
