Artificial intelligence created "hallucinatory" case citations, and the fake citations were not caught during proofreading.

The state Supreme Court faces for the first time this week what have become known as “AI hallucinations,” a troubling phenomenon created by expanding use among law firms of generative artificial ...

The talk on X and LinkedIn among attorneys lately is about fake artificial intelligence-generated cases being included in court filings. And it’s happened again in Texas and Pennsylvania. In one ...

A federal judge ordered two attorneys representing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in a Colorado defamation case to pay $3,000 each after they used artificial intelligence to prepare a court filing filled ...

A south Alabama attorney was this week publicly reprimanded by a federal judge for using fake legal citations in a criminal case. The order said lawyer James A. Johnson utilized Microsoft Word plug-in ...

There have likely been hundreds of filings with AI-hallucinated citations in American courts, but this is the first time I've seen a court note that a judge had included such a citation. From Monday's ...

NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer and fixer, says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online ...

Michael Cohen unwittingly sent his then-attorney non-existent case citations generated by artificial intelligence, he said in a court document unsealed Friday. Earlier this month, a federal judge ...

Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s onetime fixer and lawyer, admitted in a filing unsealed Friday that he inadvertently gave his lawyer fake legal case citations generated by artificial ...

A federal judge on Wednesday declined to sanction Michael Cohen and his lawyer for submitting fraudulent case citations generated by artificial intelligence (AI) — but chided them for the ...

Unsurprisingly, lawyers aren't the only ones to use AI programs (such as ChatGPT) to write portions of briefs, and thus end up filing briefs that contain AI-generated fake cases or fake quotations (cf ...