MONTREAL – A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered a man to pay $5,000 for improperly using artificial intelligence to defend himself in court.

Jean Laprade was ordered to pay the fine after he was found to have cited expert quotes and jurisprudence that don’t exist.

The decision is the latest in a legal saga that began in 2019. It is related to a business deal that dates back to a time when Laprade was based in Guinea.

He was asking the Quebec court not to approve a 2021 decision by the Paris International Arbitration Chamber that ordered him to pay some $2.7 million for an airplane he claimed to have been awarded in a business deal.

However, the decision says Laprade’s defence included several pieces of information that had been fabricated by artificial intelligence, including non-

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