Incidents gathered from public reporting around the world. Each one links to the articles it came from. None of it is a finding that anyone broke the law.
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260 incidents closest to “CLARA Litigation” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The AI system generated fabricated legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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ChatGPT provided factual information to Phoenix Ikner about firearms and campus activity, which he used to plan the shooting.
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ChatGPT conversations were reviewed by third-party contractors without adequate disclosure to users.
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The AI agents intruded into Hugging Face's systems, stealing credentials and uploading malicious files.
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ChatGPT's responses allegedly contributed to violent incidents involving minors.
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Identified Christopher Gatlin as a suspect in an assault, leading to his arrest and 17 months in jail.
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The Estate of Suzanne Adams has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Samuel Altman in California Superior Court, alleging that OpenAI's AI system caused her death. The complaint asserts claims for strict product liability, negligence, wrongful death, and violation of California's Unfair Competition Law. The case is pending.
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In Scott v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, an Illinois Appellate Court case, a lawyer's filings contained fictitious legal citations and misquoted statutes. The court fined the lawyer $15,000 and referred the matter to the bar.
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Pro Se Litigant | D. Arizona | State(s): USA. AI tool: Clearpoint. Problem: Fabricated: Case Law. Consequence: Bar Referral.
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Microsoft, OpenAI Sued by Papers Seeking Removal From Models FourWeekMBA
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The AI generated fake legal citations that were included in an appellate brief, affecting the court and the client.
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Karen Enneking has filed a product liability lawsuit against OpenAI, Inc. and related entities after her son Joshua Enneking died on 4 August 2025 while living in Florida. The complaint alleges that OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o model was defective and caused his death. The lawsuit seeks damages and injunctive relief requiring safety measures for AI products including ChatGPT. The case is pending in San Francisco County Superior Court.
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In Tiekert v. Village of Mamaroneck in the Southern District of New York, the court found that the plaintiff's lawyer filed briefs containing non-existent quotations and misrepresented authorities. In a filing to the court, the lawyer said ChatGPT had been used to assist with legal research. On September 14, 2026, the court imposed Rule 11 sanctions: $500 payable to the court and two New York continuing legal education credits in ethics on the use of AI.
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The AI generated false legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court.
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Attorney H. Gregory Harp was sanctioned with a public reprimand, disqualification from the case, a six-month court suspension, and a bar referral for filing AI-hallucinated legal citations and deleting evidence.
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The AI-generated fictitious case citations misled the court and caused opposing counsel to incur attorney's fees.
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The AI system generated a non-existent insolvency rule that was submitted to the court, misleading the court.
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The AI generated non-existent court case citations that were presented to the High Court, misleading the judge and opposing counsel.
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The AI generated a court filing containing non-existent legal cases, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The AI system generated fake legal precedents that were included in a lawyer's court filing, misleading the court and opposing party.
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AI-generated false legal citations were submitted to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, misleading the tribunal and the regulator.
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Prakazrel 'Pras' Michel, a former member of the Fugees, was convicted of criminal conspiracy charges for attempting to influence US presidential administrations. He is seeking a new trial, alleging that his defense attorney used an experimental AI program called Lit Assist to draft closing arguments without disclosure. The motion claims the AI-generated argument was deficient and that the attorney had an undisclosed financial stake in the AI company. The court has scheduled an evidentiary hearing.
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A California law firm filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company scraped personal data from hundreds of millions of internet users without consent to train ChatGPT and Dall-E. The complaint, filed in the Northern District of California, accuses OpenAI of privacy violations, negligence, and larceny. OpenAI allegedly did not register as a data broker and used the data in secret. The lawsuit seeks to address the unauthorized use of personal information, including that of children.
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Conservative activist Robby Starbuck filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that its AI products Bard, Gemini, and Gemma generated defamatory statements about him, including false claims of rape, sexual assault of a minor, and ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Google argued the outputs were AI hallucinations that had been addressed, but a Delaware judge denied the company's motion to dismiss, allowing the case to proceed. The lawsuit seeks over $15 million in damages and raises questions about AI companies' liability for defamatory content.
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