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68 incidents closest to “DISCO Ediscovery” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were submitted to the court, affecting the defendant and the judicial process.
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Sullivan & Cromwell, an elite Wall Street law firm, used an AI tool to help draft a court filing in the Prince Group case. The filing contained inaccurate citations and misquoted the US bankruptcy code due to AI hallucinations. The errors were uncovered by opposing counsel Boies Schiller Flexner, and the firm apologised to the judge and filed a corrected version. The firm stated that its AI policies were not followed and its review process failed to catch the mistakes.
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The AI generated fake case citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The AI generated fake legal citations that were included in an appellate brief, misleading the court and the opposing party.
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ShotSpotter, a gunshot-detection technology company, was held in contempt of court after refusing to release documents about how it assesses gunshot alerts. The case stems from a November 2021 DUI arrest in Chicago, where the defence alleges the police pulled the driver over solely based on a ShotSpotter alert. Rather than comply with a subpoena from the Cook County Public Defender Office, ShotSpotter's attorney requested the contempt order to enable an appeal. The defence sought materials on analyst qualifications, alert reclassifications, and sensor accuracy data.
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The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were presented to the court, affecting the defendants and the judicial process.
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The AI system generated hallucinated legal citations in court filings, causing the court to strike the briefs of both plaintiff and defendant.
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Generated fabricated case law in a legal complaint, causing the court to deny an emergency injunction against the City of Parkersburg.
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The AI generated fake legal citations that were included in a court filing, potentially harming the plaintiff's case.
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The AI system generated false legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The AI system generated fabricated case citations and quotations that were included in a legal brief, leading to a monetary sanction against the lawyer.
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The AI system generated fictitious legal citations in a summary judgment motion, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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Meta filed a legal action against Voyager Labs, alleging that the company used fake accounts and proprietary software to scrape user data from Facebook and Instagram. The scraping collected profile information, posts, friends lists, photos and comments. Meta disabled Voyager's accounts and sought a permanent injunction. The case was settled in December 2024, with Voyager agreeing to a permanent injunction and monetary payment.
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The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were included in a court filing, affecting the defendant's legal representation and the court's resources.
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The AI generated nonexistent case citations that were filed in court, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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AI generated fabricated case law citations that were included in a court filing, potentially misleading the court in Russell v. Mells.
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The AI-generated fictitious citation was submitted in a motion to unseal, affecting the defendant's legal proceedings.
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The AI generated fabricated case law and quotes that were included in a court filing, affecting the plaintiffs and the judicial process.
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AI-generated court filing contained fabricated case law, affecting the defendant.
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The AI generated fake legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The court imposed monetary sanctions and continuing legal education requirements on plaintiff's counsel for using AI-generated fake legal authorities in a court filing.
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Adobe's content analysis feature may scan Creative Cloud and Document Cloud files to train machine learning models, including object recognition in Lightroom and Liquid Mode in Acrobat. The company says it may analyze images, audio, video, text and other documents stored on its servers. Adobe offers an opt-out in account privacy settings, but the article notes the company did not ask first.
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The attorney filed a court document containing AI-hallucinated legal authorities, misleading the court and opposing party.
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The AI generated fictitious legal citations and quotes that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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