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Australian lawyer referred to legal regulator after submitting documents with case citations hallucinated by Anthropic's Claude AI
Judge warns of ‘inherent dangers’ of lawyers relying solely on AI amid growing number of fake citations or other errors
The lawyer told the court in an affidavit that he had relied on Anthropic’s Claude AI “as a research tool to identify potentially relevant authorities and to improve my legal arguments and position”, and then used Microsoft Copilot to validate the submissions. “I had an incorrect assumption that content generated by AI tools would be inherently reliable, which led me to neglect independently verifying all citations through established legal databases,” the lawyer said in the affidavit. In a NSW supreme court decision this month a self-represented litigant in a trusts case admitted to the chief justice, Andrew Bell, to have used AI to prepare her speech for the appeal hearing.
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