When lawyers first started getting yelled at by judges for citing hallucinated case law two years ago I naively assumed word would get around and they would all quickly learn not to
This new database has 116 cases from 12 countries where this happened, and 20 of them were from just this month!
https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/ai-hallucination-cases/
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