Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date

Key points

• An attempt to pressure Meta into removing a critical post from a Chicago Facebook group called “Are We Dating the Same Guy” may end in sanctions for lawyers whose takedown arguments appeared to rely on fake AI citations to support doxing claims.
• The case had already been dismissed with prejudice by a district court, which ruled there was no way to amend the complaint to possibly save it.
• But Nikko D’Ambrosio—who accused more than two dozen women of defaming him and blamed Meta for supposedly boosting the post to profit off its “entertainment value”—appealed anyway.
• Perhaps he felt confident despite his likely tough odds because he was relying on MarcTrent.AI, a law firm that claims to use AI to “uncover legal opportunities traditional firms miss” and “increase legal success rates by 35 percent through predictive modeling.” In a 2025 blog discussing the case, founder Marc Trent confirmed that the firm...