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Reuters — US judge sanctions lawyers over ChatGPT fake citations
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- Law Firm AI Hallucinated Fake Case Law in Court Filings
event | 1 Jan 2025 | 80%
Reuters reported that major law firms were warning lawyers that AI can invent fake case law and that filing hallucinated citations can trigger sanctions. The issue moved from isolated embarrassment to a repeatable legal-risk pattern as generative AI use spread through litigation teams.