Colombia’s Supreme Court has rejected a cassation appeal, asserting that the document was generated by artificial intelligence, only to find that its own ruling was also flagged as AI-written by the same detection tool. In an ironic twist, legal expert Emmanuel Alessio Velasquez submitted the court’s ruling to the Winston AI software, which indicated that it contained 93% AI-generated text, prompting questions about the reliability of such AI detection tools. This situation underscores the broader concerns regarding the accuracy of AI detectors, which have shown to produce inconsistent results, particularly with formal legal prose that shares statistical similarities with machine-generated content. Colombia’s judicial guidelines explicitly allow AI for administrative tasks but prohibit its use in assessing evidence or making judicial decisions, reinforcing the need for human oversight in legal processes.
Supreme Court of Colombia rejects cassation appeal flagged as AI-written
