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212 incidents closest to “vLex (subsidiary of Themis Solutions Inc.)” · matched on meaning · public reporting
The AI generated nonexistent legal citations that were included in a court filing, causing the court to strike them from the appellant's brief.
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Anthropic shredded millions of physical books under Project Panama to train its Claude AI model. Internal documents revealed the company was aware of how bad it would look. A lawsuit by authors led to a $1.5 billion settlement. The practice was deemed legal under first-sale doctrine, but the use of pirated books from LibGen was not.
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A Kansas federal judge fined four lawyers a total of $12,000 for filing court documents containing non-existent quotations and case citations generated by ChatGPT. The lawyers, representing patent holder Lexos Media IP, failed to verify the AI's output, which included hallucinated legal authorities. The judge imposed fines ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 and ordered one lawyer to report the incident to state disciplinary authorities. The sanctioned attorneys acknowledged the error and stated that firms should implement strict policies for AI use.
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Recorded and transmitted private footage of users and bystanders to overseas AI workers
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Dr Viviane Ghaderi, a former AI scientist at Amazon, alleges that she was demoted and fired after returning from maternity leave and complaining that Amazon was violating its own copyright policies in its AI research. She claims her managers told her to ignore copyright rules to keep up with competitors. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles state court, accuses Amazon of pregnancy discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination.
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Global Witness and Foxglove submitted test ads containing violent hate speech in English and Swahili to Facebook. The ads were approved for publication, demonstrating that Meta's content moderation systems failed to detect the hate speech. The groups had previously conducted similar tests in Myanmar and Ethiopia with the same result. Meta did not respond to the groups' outreach.
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In Withers v. City of Aberdeen, a contract dispute, both sides' attorneys submitted briefs containing fabricated case citations generated by AI tools. The court identified six non-existent citations and sanctioned all four attorneys, revoking pro hac vice admissions, imposing fines, and referring them to state bars. The drafting attorneys had used AI research and drafting tools without verifying outputs, while local counsel signed filings without review. The ruling emphasises that attorneys cannot delegate verification duties to AI and that ignorance of AI risks is no defence.
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The system automatically rejected tutor applicants aged 55+ (women) or 60+ (men).
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Clearview AI has agreed to stop selling its facial recognition database to most private US companies as part of a proposed settlement with the ACLU. The company scraped billions of images from social media without consent to build its database, violating Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act. The settlement requires Clearview to delete old facial vectors and allow Illinois residents to opt out. The company can still sell its technology to law enforcement and government agencies.
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Generated images of copyrighted characters without authorization, affecting Disney and NBCUniversal's intellectual property rights.
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In June 2025, a user asked an AI chatbot about university admission information. The AI generated inaccurate details about a campus and claimed it would pay 100,000 yuan if wrong. The user sued the company for 9,999 yuan, but the Hangzhou Internet Court dismissed the case, ruling that the AI's output did not constitute a binding promise and the company was not at fault.
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Generated a legal brief with hallucinated case law, filed in court.
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The AI system generated fabricated legal citations that were included in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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The system recommended rent prices to landlords, affecting renters' housing costs.
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The smart glasses recorded bystanders without their consent and sent the footage to Meta for AI training.
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Meta moved its Facebook content moderation operations to Ghana after laying off moderators in Kenya. Workers in Accra report poor working conditions, low pay, and psychological harm from reviewing traumatic content. Foxglove is investigating and planning a legal challenge.
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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 model generated music that allegedly used unlicensed copyrighted sound recordings, affecting record labels and artists.
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Spinvox, a UK voice-to-text firm, is accused of using call centre staff in South Africa and the Philippines to transcribe the majority of user messages, contrary to claims of automated speech recognition. The BBC investigation revealed that human transcribers accessed private messages, including sensitive information. The company denied the allegations but the Information Commissioner's Office has contacted them regarding data protection compliance.
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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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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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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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