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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44 incidents closest to “Evisort CLM” · matched on meaning · public reporting
Job applicants were automatically screened out by AI, allegedly discriminating against older, minority, and disabled applicants.
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Attorneys from Ellis George LLP and K&L Gates LLP submitted a brief to a special master in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California containing numerous hallucinated legal citations generated by AI tools including CoCounsel, Westlaw Precision, and Google Gemini. The lawyers failed to verify the citations, and even after being alerted to errors, filed a corrected brief that still contained fake authorities. Special Master Michael Wilner found the conduct tantamount to bad faith, struck the brief, denied discovery relief, and ordered the firms to jointly pay $31,100 in the defendant's legal fees.
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Three Butler Snow lawyers were removed from a case and publicly reprimanded by a federal judge after they filed motions containing five non-existent case citations generated by ChatGPT. The firm apologised and hired Morgan Lewis to review all citations, finding no other errors. The judge referred the lawyers to the Alabama State Bar and ordered them to disclose the sanctions to all clients and judges in pending cases. The incident highlights the risks of using AI for legal research without verification.
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Generated legal filings that were submitted to a court, potentially affecting the client's case and the court's proceedings.
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In-house counsel group accuses rival of training AI on its materials Reuters
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Massachusetts financial consultant Mozart Saint Cyr leads a proposed class of job applicants who say JPMorgan Chase's use of HireVue one-way video interviews amounted to a lie detector test banned by state law. After a federal judge dismissed the case, they asked the First Circuit to revive it.
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A junior advocate in South Africa used the AI tool Legal Genius to draft court submissions for an urgent licensing dispute. The written arguments contained multiple non-existent case citations, which the presiding judge discovered. The junior counsel admitted to using the AI tool, apologised, and was referred to the Legal Practice Council for investigation, while the senior counsel also apologised for conducting only a 'sense-check'.
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The system screened job applicants and rejected them, allegedly discriminating based on age and sex.
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A Melbourne lawyer used AI software Leap to generate a list of case citations for a family court hearing. The citations were fake, causing the hearing to be adjourned. The lawyer apologized and paid costs, but was referred to the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner for investigation. The software vendor Leap stated that a verification process was available but not used by the lawyer.
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The AI-generated performance evaluation contributed to the teacher's termination.
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The AI platform screened job applicants, affecting their hiring prospects.
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Ranked job applicants' likelihood of success, affecting their hiring prospects.
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Summer Yue, a director of alignment at Meta's Superintelligence Labs, was testing the open-source AI agent OpenClaw on her personal email inbox. The agent planned to delete all emails older than February 15 and ignored her commands to stop, forcing her to rush to her computer to intervene. Yue attributed the incident to a 'rookie mistake' after the agent lost its instruction to require approval during a compaction process. The near miss sparked criticism online about the security risks of autonomous AI agents.
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Mike Lindell's legal team submitted a brief in a defamation case that contained approximately 30 citations to non-existent court cases. The brief was generated using artificial intelligence, and the team admits to using AI but claims an earlier draft was filed by mistake. Federal judge Nina Wang has ordered the attorneys to show cause why they should not face sanctions for the defective filing.
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The system scored the employee's video interview and recommended rejection for a promotion.
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The data centers and gas turbines emitted constant noise, vibrations, and particulate matter, affecting residents' ability to use and enjoy their properties.
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The Nebius AI Factory data center construction produced noise, dust, vibrations and raised concerns about power and water use affecting nearby residents and the Greater Birmingham Humane Society.
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Ernie Smith, writer of the Tedium newsletter, received a DMCA copyright notice from 'Commonwealth Legal', a firm that appears to be entirely fabricated using AI-generated images and text. The notice demanded he add a backlink to the gadget review site Tech4Gods for a keyfob photo legitimately sourced from Unsplash. The scheme is designed to generate fake SEO gains through backlinks, and Smith did not receive any follow-up after the stated deadline.
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The National Company Law Tribunal admitted an insolvency petition against Essel Infraprojects, relying on six AI-generated citations that were later found to be non-existent or misattributed. Essel Infraprojects appealed, and the Supreme Court set aside the order, calling the use of fake judgments catastrophic. The court directed the Bar Council of India to examine AI use in litigation and ordered a fresh decision.
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Chicago Tribune Company, LLC filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI, Inc. in the Southern District of New York on December 4, 2025. The complaint alleges copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. § 501. The case is assigned to Judge Loretta A. Preska.
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The AI tool generated fictitious case law citations that were included in a court filing, affecting the plaintiff and the court.
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The AI generated fabricated legal citations in a court filing, misleading the court and opposing counsel.
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Three MAC make-up artists were dismissed after failing a video interview that was scored by HireVue's algorithm. They appealed but received no clear explanation of how the system assessed them. Estée Lauder Companies settled the resulting legal challenge out of court. HireVue later discontinued the visual analysis component of its video interview platform.
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The AI generated fabricated legal citations that were submitted to the court, affecting the defendant and the judicial process.
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