It’s not new for judges to deal with lawyers’ citation errors in legal briefs, from misquotations to intentional misrepresentations. What’s new—thanks to AI—is the volume of those errors.
According to the latest Bloomberg Law analysis, hallucinations in case filings are growing exponentially. With nearly 70% of surveyed lawyers saying that they use AI in legal research, it is likely that hallucinations in filings are far more commonplace than what has been reported.
Today, AI misuse takes many different forms, including completely fabricated cases, names of cases inappropriately mixed with reporter citations, imaginary quotations, and misattributed propositions of law. ...
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