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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The AI generated fake legal citations that were submitted to a federal court, potentially misleading the judge and opposing counsel.
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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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The court granted a motion to dismiss and imposed sanctions on plaintiff's counsel for submitting a brief with AI-hallucinated fake cases.
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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 false legal quotations that were submitted to the court in a legal brief.
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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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Cloud security firm Wiz discovered a ClickHouse database belonging to DeepSeek that was open to the internet without authentication, containing over a million lines of logs with chat histories, secret keys and backend details. Wiz disclosed the breach to DeepSeek, which promptly locked down the database. The incident highlights security risks in rapidly deploying AI services.
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In January 2021, the California Employment Development Department used Thompson Reuters automated batch review software to flag 1.1 million unemployment claims as potentially fraudulent. EDD stopped payments on those claims without prior notice. Later, over 600,000 were confirmed as legitimate after claimants used ID.me to verify their identity. The incident highlights the trade-off between fraud prevention and timely benefit access.
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The AI chatbot provided inaccurate information to a user.
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EvenUp, a legal tech startup valued at $1 billion, uses AI to draft personal injury demand letters. Former employees revealed that the AI system frequently makes errors, including missing injuries and fabricating medical conditions. The company defends its hybrid approach with human oversight, but critics allege overpromised AI capabilities.
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A US federal magistrate judge has ordered Anthropic to respond to music publishers' claim that a court filing by Anthropic data scientist Olivia Chen cited a fictitious academic article that may have been generated by Anthropic's AI tool Claude. The publishers' lawyer said he had confirmed with the named author and journal that the article did not exist. Anthropic's lawyer disputed this, saying it was a mis-citation rather than an AI hallucination. The filing was made in an ongoing copyright case brought by Universal Music Group, Concord, and ABKCO against Anthropic over the use of song lyrics to train Claude.
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The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a statement on 22 May 2024 regarding Microsoft's Recall feature. The ICO is making enquiries with Microsoft to understand the safeguards in place to protect user privacy, expecting transparency and necessity in data processing. This follows concerns that the feature may not adequately consider data protection from the outset before being brought to market.
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Major record labels including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Records, represented by the RIAA, have filed lawsuits against AI music companies Suno and Udio. The lawsuits allege that the companies used copyrighted sound recordings without permission to train their generative AI models, which can produce songs that imitate known artists. The RIAA is seeking damages of up to $150,000 per work. The companies have denied the allegations, with Suno's CEO stating that their technology generates new outputs and does not allow prompts based on specific artists.
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