Description: In Fivehouse v. U.S. Department of Defense, Assistant U.S. Attorney Rudy Renfer filed a response brief that the court reportedly said contained fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings. Renfer reportedly admitted he had used AI to help draft the inaccurate filing after losing an earlier draft. The court reportedly also identified similar fabricated quotations in other filings signed by Renfer.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Unknown large language model developers developed an AI system deployed by United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina and Rudy Renfer, which harmed Judicial integrity , Epistemic integrity and Derence V. Fivehouse.
Alleged implicated AI system: Unknown large language models
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1434
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2026-03-02
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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An assistant US attorney in North Carolina filed a response with the court that included “fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings” and then made “false or misleading statements” of how they got included, a magistrate judge …
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Senior leaders from the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of North Carolina must appear at a show-cause hearing this week, after an assistant U.S. attorney filed a response with the court including "fabricated quotations and m…
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