AI Hallucinations in Court Documents Are a Growing Problem, and Lawyers Are Responsible for Many of Them

AI hallucinations in court documents are a growing problem, and lawyers are responsible for many of them

Judges are catching fake citations of legal authorities almost every day, and it's increasingly the fault of lawyers over-relying on AI.May Lim / 500px/Getty Images/500pxSince May 1, judges have called out at least 23 examples of AI hallucinations in court records.Legal researcher Damien Charlotin's data shows fake citations have grown more common since 2023.Most cases are from the US, and increasingly, the mistakes are made by lawyers, not layp…

AI hallucinations: A budding sentience or a global embarrassment?

An article cut and pasted from ChatGPT raises questions over the role of fact-checkers in legacy media. In a farcical yet telling blunder, multiple major newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times and Philadelphia Inquirer, recently published a summer-reading list riddled with nonexistent books that were "hallucinated" by ChatGPT, with many of them falsely attributed to real authors. The syndicated article, distributed by Hearst's King Features…

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AI’s Habit of Information Fabrication (“Hallucination”): Where’s the Human Factor? – Hugh Stephens

Image: Shutterstock (with AI assist) It is well known that when AI applications can’t respond to a query, instead of admitting they don’t know the answer, they often resort to “making stuff up”—a phenomenon commonly called “hallucination” but which should more accurately be called for what it is, total fabrication. This was one of the legal issues raised by the New York Times in its lawsuit against OpenAI, with the Times complaining, among other…

Artificial intelligence is supposed to help journalists as a form of trustworthy digital sidekick, but over the weekend, Politiken's tool was a sidekick from hell. In a portrait in the newspaper on Saturday about the author Harald Voetmann, there was a fact box created using AI, which turned out to be full of errors. Among other things, it appeared that the author has written […]

Anthropic CEO Says AI Models Hallucinate Less Than People

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated at the company’s Code with Claude developer event in San Francisco that current AI models hallucinate — meaning they make up information and present it as fact — at a lower rate than humans do. However, he noted that AI hallucinations tend to be more unexpected in nature. Hallucinations and the Path to AGI Amodei emphasized that hallucinations do not represent a fundamental obstacle on Anthropic’s journey toward…