Skip to Content
logologo
AI Incident Database
Donate
Discover
Submit
  • Welcome to the AIID
  • Table View
  • List view
  • Entities
  • Taxonomies
  • Spatial View
  • Blog
  • AI News Digest
  • Random Incident
  • Sign Up
Discover
Submit
  • Welcome to the AIID
  • Table View
  • List view
  • Entities
  • Taxonomies
  • Spatial View
  • Blog
  • AI News Digest
  • Random Incident
  • Sign Up

Incident 1728: Law Firm Shapiro Arato Bach Reportedly Filed Fictitious Case Citation and Misattributed Quotations Using Harvey's Legal AI Platform in New York Federal Court

Responded
Description: Law firm Shapiro Arato Bach reportedly acknowledged that unchecked use of Harvey, a legal AI platform, produced a fictitious case citation and misattributed quotations in a brief filed in federal court in New York. The court required an explanation and disclosure of the AI tool. The judge declined sanctions, and the firm apologized and said it was adding safeguards.

Tools

New ReportNew ResponseDiscoverView History

Entities

View all entities
Alleged: Harvey , AI-assisted legal drafting system developers and Large language model developers developed an AI system deployed by Shapiro Arato Bach LLP , Lawyers and Law firms, which harmed United States District Court for the Southern District of New York , Judicial integrity and Courts.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Harvey , Enterprise AI systems , AI-assisted legal drafting systems and Large language models

Incident Stats

Incident ID
1728
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2026-09-22
Editors
Daniel Atherton

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

Incident OccurrenceDeclaration of Cynthia S. Arato - ResponseInside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big MacJudge warns AI could stunt lawyers' training and harm their clients
Loading...
Declaration of Cynthia S. Arato

Declaration of Cynthia S. Arato

fingfx.thomsonreuters.com

Loading...
Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac

Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac

reuters.com

Loading...
Judge warns AI could stunt lawyers' training and harm their clients

Judge warns AI could stunt lawyers' training and harm their clients

reuters.com

Loading...
Declaration of Cynthia S. Arato
fingfx.thomsonreuters.com · 2026
Cynthia S. Arato post-incident response

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

LAWAND HILL,
Plaintiff,

-against-

FOUNDATION MEDIA LLC,
Defendant.

No. 1:25-cv-5947-AS

DECLARATION OF
CYNTHIA S. ARATO

I, Cynthia Arato, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, declares as fo…

Loading...
Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
reuters.com · 2026

NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Reuters) - McDonald's is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters' profit but risks alienating customers and attractin…

Loading...
Judge warns AI could stunt lawyers' training and harm their clients
reuters.com · 2026

WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - A federal judge has warned that law firms' increasing use of artificial intelligence could create risks for clients and hinder the training of junior lawyers, even as he declined ​to sanction attorneys over AI-…

Variants

A "variant" is an AI incident similar to a known case—it has the same causes, harms, and AI system. Instead of listing it separately, we group it under the first reported incident. Unlike other incidents, variants do not need to have been reported outside the AIID. Learn more from the research paper.
Seen something similar?

Similar Incidents

By textual similarity

Did our AI mess up? Flag the unrelated incidents

Loading...
Defamation via AutoComplete

Defamation via AutoComplete

Apr 2011 · 27 reports
Loading...
COMPAS Algorithm Reportedly Performs Poorly in Crime Recidivism Prediction

COMPAS Algorithm Reportedly Performs Poorly in Crime Recidivism Prediction

May 2016 · 21 reports
Loading...
New Jersey Police Wrongful Arrested Innocent Black Man via FRT

New Jersey Police Wrongful Arrested Innocent Black Man via FRT

Jan 2019 · 4 reports
Previous IncidentNext Incident

Similar Incidents

By textual similarity

Did our AI mess up? Flag the unrelated incidents

Loading...
Defamation via AutoComplete

Defamation via AutoComplete

Apr 2011 · 27 reports
Loading...
COMPAS Algorithm Reportedly Performs Poorly in Crime Recidivism Prediction

COMPAS Algorithm Reportedly Performs Poorly in Crime Recidivism Prediction

May 2016 · 21 reports
Loading...
New Jersey Police Wrongful Arrested Innocent Black Man via FRT

New Jersey Police Wrongful Arrested Innocent Black Man via FRT

Jan 2019 · 4 reports

Research

  • Defining an “AI Incident”
  • Defining an “AI Incident Response”
  • Database Roadmap
  • Related Work
  • Download Complete Database

Project and Community

  • About
  • Contact and Follow
  • Apps and Summaries
  • Editor’s Guide

Incidents

  • All Incidents in List Form
  • Flagged Incidents
  • Submission Queue
  • Classifications View
  • Taxonomies

2026 - AI Incident Database

  • Terms of use
  • Privacy Policy
  • b74f812