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Fifth Circuit overturns ruling due to AI-hallucinated citations in school diversity case

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legal · A federal appeals panel overturned a lower court's preliminary injunct...

Anthropic’s AI gave Philadelphia police a fake tip about an unsolved homicide

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Anthropic AI

security · An Anthropic AI model generated and submitted a false homicide tip to ...

DC appeals court faults lawyers for Deutsche Bank subsidiary over AI hallucination

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Google's generative AI search tool

legal · A D.C. appeals court struck down an appellate brief filed by a Deutsch...

US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report

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security · A special operations command analyst used an AI tool to generate an in...

Google Pulls Gemma After AI Defames Sen. Blackburn

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Gemma

other · Google's Gemma model fabricated a sexual assault accusation against Se...

AI Medical Scribe Reportedly Added False Psychedelic Claim

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medical · An AI medical transcription tool hallucinated that a patient was micro...

AI Chatbot produces misinformation about elections

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Microsoft Copilot

journalism · Microsoft's Bing Chat (now Copilot) generated false scandals and inven...

AI hallucinations are causing headaches in Louisiana courtrooms

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legal · An attorney was cited by a Baton Rouge judge for including a fabricate...

German Court Holds Doctors Liable for AI Chatbot's False Medical Claims

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medical · A German court ruled that doctors are liable for their website's AI ch...

Appeals Court Lifts Block on Mississippi's DEI Ban and Ejects Judge Over AI Errors

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Perplexity

legal · A federal judge's law clerk used an AI tool to draft a court order, re...

Anthropic's AI sent false homicide tip to police

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Claude

security · An Anthropic AI model submitted a fabricated tip regarding an unsolved...

Australian government pays Deloitte for report built on AI-generated nonsense

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Azure OpenAI GPT-4o

other · Deloitte Australia produced a $440,000 government report containing fa...

WhatsApp AI exposes private phone number

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Meta AI

security · Meta's WhatsApp AI assistant hallucinated and provided a private indiv...

Coinbase's AI broke the news of a World Cup result before kickoff

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journalism · Coinbase's AI-generated news system pushed a breaking alert claiming N...

Developer says Meta's Muse agent sent an unprompted message about checking an email account it could not access

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Meta Muse

security · Meta's Muse AI agent sent an unprompted message to a user claiming it ...

Thorogood v. Merit Systems Protection Board AI hallucination incident

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legal · The Court of Appeals identified multiple AI-hallucinated citations in ...

Lawyer struck off for using fake AI-generated cases before SDT

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legal · A registered foreign lawyer was struck off by the Solicitors Disciplin...

Teaching Assistant Sent on Training for Student Litter Tray

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ChatGPT

education · A teaching assistant was mistakenly sent on a training course for chan...

Anthropic's Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police

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Claude

security · An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip regarding an unsolved murd...

Mercante v. Tarzia AI hallucination incident

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Westlaw AI

legal · A lawyer used Westlaw AI to generate legal research for a court filing...

Waushara County v. Beatrice Bruning AI hallucination incident

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legal · A pro se litigant filed a memorandum containing AI-generated errors, i...

Meta AI falsely denies Trump assassination attempt

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Meta AI

other · Meta AI incorrectly claimed that the July 2024 assassination attempt o...

Nebraska court identifies AI-hallucinated citations in appeal

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legal · In the case of Shannon v. Shannon, a judge identified that a pro se li...

Another Day, Another AI Hallucination Case

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legal · Attorneys in a wage and hour class action were sanctioned $6,000 by a ...

Anthropic's AI sent false homicide tip to police, filed 20 visa applications

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Claude

security · Anthropic's Claude AI model generated a false homicide tip sent to Phi...

Implications of Apple AI generating false news summaries

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Apple Intelligence

journalism · Apple Intelligence generated inaccurate news summaries that misstated ...

Oklahoma Judge Reportedly Used ChatGPT-Generated Fictitious Case Citations in Family-Law Order

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ChatGPT

legal · An Oklahoma judge acknowledged using ChatGPT for research, which resul...

AI Hallucinations Are Now Routinely Derailing Government Reports

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other · The South African government was forced to withdraw its draft National...

Mata v. Avianca AI Hallucination Case

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ChatGPT

legal · A law firm faced legal scrutiny after submitting a court filing that i...

Pinsent Masons faces regulator referral over AI 'hallucinations' in insolvency case

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legal · A junior solicitor at the law firm Pinsent Masons relied on AI-generat...

Lawyer sanctioned for AI-generated false quotes in Village of Mamaroneck case

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ChatGPT

legal · A lawyer was ordered to pay a $500 monetary sanction and complete ethi...

Lawyer referred to bar for fabricated case law in Cartagena v. Dixon

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legal · The court struck a memorandum and referred an attorney to the bar afte...

Apple Intelligence generates inaccurate news summaries

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Apple Intelligence

journalism · Apple Intelligence generated inaccurate summaries of news articles, le...

Posey v. Bushnell AI hallucination sanction

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ClearBrief, Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini

legal · A lawyer was sanctioned $3,000 and ordered to complete AI-ethics cours...

AI-generated Pentagon explosion image causes market dip

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finance · An AI-generated image depicting an explosion at the Pentagon circulate...

Anthropic Rogue AI Incidents: Fake Police Tip

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Claude Haiku 4.5

security · Anthropic disclosed incidents where its Claude Haiku 4.5 model engaged...

Cynthia White v. Walmart, Inc. AI Hallucination

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legal · In the case of Cynthia White v. Walmart, Inc., a lawyer submitted cour...

Canada lawyer under fire for submitting fake cases created by AI chatbot

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legal · A Canadian lawyer submitted legal filings to a court that included fak...

Ars Technica Retracts Article Over Fabricated AI Quotes

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journalism · Ars Technica retracted an article by a senior reporter after it was di...

AI chatbots can run with medical misinformation, study finds, highlighting the need for stronger safeguards

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medical · A study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ...

Apple Intelligence generates false news summaries

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Apple Intelligence

journalism · Apple Intelligence generated inaccurate news summaries, including a fa...

I wrote The Future of Truth and then found to my alarm it contained AI-hallucinated quotes

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journalism · An author discovered that their book, The Future of Truth, contained 2...

Microsoft’s AI chatbot hallucinates election information

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Microsoft Copilot

other · Microsoft's chatbot generated false information regarding election can...

AI Errors and Court Order: Navigating Legal Ethics

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legal · A lawyer faced legal sanctions after submitting a court filing that co...

The Telegraph publishes AI editing instructions in live article

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journalism · The Telegraph accidentally published an article about Donald Trump tha...

Aguilar v. The Crawford Group, Inc.

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Unidentified

legal · A lawyer admitted to using generative AI to prepare judicial review an...

Claude Code deletes user home directory

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Claude Code

security · An AI agent using Claude Code executed a command that deleted a user's...

Gemini CLI deletes files based on hallucinated paths

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Gemini

security · The Gemini CLI tool hallucinated the existence of non-existent file pa...

Microsoft Copilot falsely accuses journalist of crimes

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Microsoft Copilot

journalism · Microsoft Copilot falsely linked a retired journalist to criminal case...

Judge's TRO order contains AI-generated hallucinations

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legal · A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order that included AI-...

Lawyers Caught Using AI-Generated Fake Citations in Court

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ChatGPT and Claude

legal · Lawyers in multiple court cases, including a notable instance involvin...

Judge issues warning after lawyer for student protesters cites AI-hallucinated cases in lawsuit against Columbia, Barnard

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legal · A lawyer representing student protesters included AI-hallucinated lega...

Mata v. Avianca AI Hallucination Case

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legal · Lawyers at the firm Levidow, Levidow & Oberman were sanctioned after u...

China's J-36 fighter jet designers warn of military AI hallucinations

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security · Engineers at the AVIC Chengdu Aircraft Research and Design Institute r...

A lawyer used ChatGPT for a legal filing. The chatbot cited nonexistent cases it just made up.

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legal · A lawyer used ChatGPT to conduct legal research for a court filing, bu...

Dismissal of False Claims Act Lawsuit Tainted by Expert’s AI Hallucinations

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legal · An expert witness in a False Claims Act lawsuit used generative AI to ...

Pro se litigant submits memorandum filled with AI-generated hallucinations

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legal · In the case Abello v NYP Holdings, Inc., a litigant submitted a legal ...

Mark Walters v. OpenAI defamation lawsuit

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ChatGPT

legal · ChatGPT falsely claimed that a radio host had embezzled funds from a n...

Google is held liable for false information from its AI

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Google AI Overview

legal · A German court ruled that Google is responsible for defamatory comment...

AI chatbot's false nuclear warning nearly triggered US-China clash

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security · A chatbot misidentified a Chinese ship's cargo as nuclear-related, lea...

DPD chatbot writes profane poem about company

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other · A DPD customer service chatbot was manipulated into disregarding its r...

Case Citation Hallucinations Lead to Different Sanctions for Each Lawyer

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legal · Two attorneys were sanctioned after submitting filings containing at l...

Moffatt v Air Canada: the airline bound by its chatbot's invented policy

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legal · An Air Canada chatbot hallucinated a refund policy that did not exist,...

US military nearly sparked an international crisis after using AI for false intelligence report

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security · A US military operation to intercept a Chinese ship was nearly execute...

State Farm defense lawyers admit AI generated fake cases in LA lawsuit

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legal · Attorneys representing State Farm in a Los Angeles insurance lawsuit s...

AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation

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other · A U.S. military operation targeting a Chinese vessel was nearly launch...

Fox Valley police warn AI-created crash videos on social media may lead to misinformation

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security · Police in the Fox Valley area issued warnings regarding AI-generated v...

Microsoft's Bing AI chatbot Copilot gives wrong election information

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Microsoft Copilot

journalism · A study found that Microsoft Copilot generated fabricated controversie...

Air Canada Chatbot Misleads Passenger on Bereavement Policy

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other · An Air Canada AI chatbot provided incorrect information regarding the ...

PwC published reports on AI marred by AI hallucinations

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finance · Consulting firm PwC published 'thought leadership' reports regarding A...

PwC AI reports tainted by hallucination errors

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finance · PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) published several 'thought leadership' re...

AI hallucination nearly sparked a real-world military response

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other · An AI hallucination reportedly generated false information that nearly...

AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation

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security · A Special Operations Command analyst used an AI chatbot to synthesize ...

AI hallucinations appear to be creeping into consulting reports

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other · An investigation by GPTZero found that a report from consultancy EY co...

Grandmother Falsely Accused of Bank Theft After Alleged AI Facial Recognition Match Sues for $10M

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legal · A Tennessee grandmother, Angela Lipps, was wrongfully arrested and det...

US military nearly boarded Chinese ship due to AI-generated false intelligence

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security · The US military narrowly avoided an international incident after an AI...

NYC Business Advice Chatbot Hallucination

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legal · New York City's 'MyCity' chatbot provided illegal business advice to u...

Air Canada’s Chatbot Error

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finance · Air Canada's customer service chatbot provided incorrect information r...

Attorneys Face Sanctions After Citing Information ‘Hallucinated’ by ChatGPT

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legal · Legal counsel presented false court case law in court that had been ge...

State of Hawaii v. Cody Presti

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legal · An appellate court found that legal arguments submitted by a party con...

California Courts Send Clear Message: AI Shortcuts Have Serious Consequences

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LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters AI tools

legal · A Nevada County prosecutor cited three completely fabricated legal cas...

LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations

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education · A large-scale audit of 2.5 million academic papers revealed a sharp in...

State Farm lawyers admit to filing motions containing AI-generated fake case law

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legal · Attorneys representing State Farm in a Los Angeles lawsuit admitted to...

State of Hawaii v. Cody Presti

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legal · Plaintiff's counsel included multiple purported citations in a legal f...

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

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other · KPMG retracted a report titled 'Redefining excellence in the age of ag...

Douglas v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company

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legal · A lawyer submitted legal filings to the D.C. Court of Appeals containi...

California Supreme Court Addresses AI-Fabricated Citations in Criminal Case

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legal · In Kjoller v. Superior Court of Nevada County, a prosecutor submitted ...

Ars Technica Retracts Article Following AI-Fabricated Quotes

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journalism · Ars Technica was forced to completely retract a published story after ...

Ars Technica Retracts Article After AI Tool Fabricates Source Quotes

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journalism · Ars Technica retracted an entire published story after discovering an ...

Claude repeats Russian and Iranian propaganda

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other · A NewsGuard review found that Claude repeated false claims supporting ...

ChatGPT creates fake child murderer story

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other · ChatGPT generated a false, defamatory story about a Norwegian man, ide...

Ars Technica Retracts Article Containing Hallucinated AI Quotes

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Claude / ChatGPT

journalism · An Ars Technica reporter used AI tools including Claude Code and ChatG...

ChatGPT invented fake police testimony in murder appeal, New Mexico high court says

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legal · A New Mexico defense attorney used ChatGPT to summarize trial records ...

Judge Sanctions Lawyers Over AI-Generated Court Brief With Fake Citations

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legal · Attorneys representing a client in a personal injury suit submitted a ...

Major KPMG Agentic AI Report Found Riddled With Fabricated Citations

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other · Investigators revealed that a published KPMG consulting report on agen...

PwC Thought Leadership Reports Found Riddled with AI-Fabricated Citations

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finance · Analysis by GPTZero revealed four PwC Middle East reports contained AI...

EY Consulting Report Features Nonexistent Forbes Reference

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other · A 44-page cybersecurity report published by Ernst & Young cited an uni...

UK Crown Prosecution Service Submits AI-Hallucinated Citations in Court

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legal · In Tobosaru v Court of Law Craiolva, the UK Crown Prosecution Service ...

FDA Issues Warning Letter Over AI-Generated Drug Manufacturing Protocols

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medical · The FDA cited Purolea Cosmetics Lab with a formal warning letter after...

Radio Host Sues OpenAI Over Hallucinated Embezzlement Accusation

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legal · Radio personality Mark Walters filed a defamation lawsuit against Open...