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State Court of Appeal issues 1st opinion sanctioning lawyer for AI 'hallucinations'

Sep 17, 2025

(Subscription required) A lawyer's failure to check the delusional ChatGPT output he folded into his pleadings has cost him $10,000 in sanctions and made him the target of a state appellate panel's withering opinion of first impression regarding hallucinations in legal drafting.

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