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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92 incidents closest to “CoCounsel Essentials” · matched on meaning · public reporting
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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The AI generated false legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and potentially harming the client's case.
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AI-hallucinated fake quotations were included in court filings submitted by counsel Elizabeth Tate, misleading the court.
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AI-generated fake legal citations were included in a court filing, resulting in monetary sanctions against the attorney and his law firm.
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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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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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AI generated hallucinated content in a court filing, affecting the legal process and the lawyers who filed it.
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The AI-generated hallucinated citations in an expert report led to the exclusion of the expert and dismissal of the plaintiff's case.
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The system generated fake legal citations that were included in a court filing, potentially misleading the court and prejudicing the client's case.
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The AI generated false legal citations and quotations in an appellate brief, misleading the court and harming the client's immigration appeal.
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The AI generated legal briefs containing fabricated citations, which were submitted to the Connecticut Supreme Court.
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The United States Postal Service's law enforcement wing, the Postal Inspection Service, ran a secret surveillance program called the Internet Covert Operations Program (iCOP) that used facial recognition from Clearview AI and social media monitoring tools to infiltrate online communities and monitor protests. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) sued the USPS for failing to conduct and publish a privacy impact assessment as required by the E-Government Act. A federal district court dismissed the lawsuit on standing grounds, ruling that EPIC did not suffer a cognizable injury from the agency's refusal to disclose information about the program.
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The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were submitted to the bankruptcy court.
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AI generated hallucinated legal citations that were filed in court, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were included in a court filing, affecting the court and the opposing party.
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The AI system generated fake legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The AI generated fictitious legal citations that were submitted to the court in a legal filing.
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The AI generated fictitious legal authorities and arguments that were filed in a court motion, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The AI system generated legal briefs containing fabricated case citations, which were filed in court, affecting the court and the opposing party.
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AI-generated fake legal citations were submitted to the court, affecting the plaintiff's appeal and the defendant's legal costs.
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The AI system generated fake legal citations that were submitted to the court, resulting in a fine for contempt.
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In a British Columbia Supreme Court case, lawyer Chong Ke used ChatGPT to generate legal case citations for a notice of application in a parenting dispute. The citations were fictitious and were discovered by opposing counsel, who incurred costs investigating them. Ke later acknowledged the error, apologized, and withdrew the fake cases before the hearing. The court considered whether to order special costs against Ke personally.
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