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A Texas federal court issued a landmark AI disclosure order after a pro se plaintiff admitted that inaccuracies in a joint discovery report resulted from unchecked AI use, requiring all filers to certify AI usage and verify every AI-generated assertion.
Endure Industries, a small business appealing a Defence Health Agency contract cancellation before the ASBCA, cited a nonexistent court decision in its brief. After a show cause order, the company admitted AI use — the first documented AI hallucination admission before the Armed Services Board of Co
A pro se plaintiff admitted using AI to draft filings in an insurance dispute but repeatedly misrepresented the law, citing phantom cases and cases that stood for unrelated propositions. The court denied sanctions against defense counsel while warning that all litigants must verify AI-generated lega
Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed a contract enforcement order against a pro se defendant and publicly warned him that future unverified AI use could trigger sanctions — marking its disapproval with a ChatGPT-generated limerick about vanishing case citations.
A Michigan Court of Appeals zoning opinion was flagged by Westlaw for containing citation references that are incorrect or do not exist — with the AI hallucinations originating in the court’s own published opinion, not a party’s brief. A rare and alarming escalation of the AI hallucination problem.
A Korean contractor’s ASBCA surreply was struck after 27 problematic citations were found, including 16 to non-existent cases — but the Board declined to dismiss the entire $100M+ contract appeal as too severe. The Board found a ‘lack of candour’ about how the AI-generated errors arose, denying the
The US Seventh Circuit admonished a petitioner’s attorney for including AI-generated non-existent citations and a false quotation in an immigration appeal brief — but imposed no financial penalty, signalling that a formal admonishment from a circuit court carries its own significant weight.
A North Carolina federal court dismissed a pro se plaintiff’s FCRA case and denied leave to amend after her AI-generated briefs cited fictitious provisions of the North Carolina Identity Theft Protection Act and contained fabricated case citations — even after the court had already warned her it wou
An Oklahoma federal court sanctioned attorney Rachel Bussett after she filed a response brief containing non-existent and misleading case citations she attributed to a ‘trusted legal vendor’s AI tool.’ The court found that blaming the AI tool did not excuse the attorney’s failure to personally verif
In one of the most egregious AI hallucination cases on record, an Oregon federal court dismissed plaintiffs’ claims with prejudice and imposed monetary sanctions after their attorneys filed three briefs containing citations to 15 non-existent cases and fabricated quotations falsely attributed to eig