Opinion: AI 'hallucinations' are a growing problem for the legal profession


Judges have been making it clear that they have had it up to here with fabricated quotes, incorrect references to legal decisions and citations to nonexistent precedents generated by AI bots. — Pixabay

You've probably heard the one about the product that blows up in its creators' faces when they're trying to demonstrate how great it is.

Here's a ripped-from-the-headlines yarn about what happened when a big law firm used an AI bot product developed by Anthropic, its client, to help write an expert's testimony defending the client.

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