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Lawyers Caught Citing AI-Hallucinated Cases Call It a 'Cautionary Tale' | The attorneys filed court documents referencing eight non-existent cases, then admitted it was a "hallucination" by an AI tool.
The attorneys filed court documents referencing eight non-existent cases, then admitted it was a "hallucination" by an AI tool.
In a court order filed last week, Wyoming District Judge Kelly Rankin demanded the attorneys explain why they shouldn’t be sanctioned or disciplined for citing made-up information, including referencing eight non-existent cases. Four days later, they responded: “Our internal artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question while assisting our attorney in drafting the motion in limine,” the law firm said in a filed response. And in 2024, disbarred former celebrity attorney Michael Cohen gave his own lawyer, David Schwartz fake case citations generated by Google Bard.
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