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Derence V. Fivehouse

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Incident 14342 Report
DOJ Attorney Reportedly Used AI to File Brief With Purportedly Fabricated Quotes and Misstated Case Holdings

2026-03-02

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.

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United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1434
    2 Reports

    DOJ Attorney Reportedly Used AI to File Brief With Purportedly Fabricated Quotes and Misstated Case Holdings

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Rudy Renfer

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 1434
    2 Reports

    DOJ Attorney Reportedly Used AI to File Brief With Purportedly Fabricated Quotes and Misstated Case Holdings

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Unknown large language model developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 1434
    2 Reports

    DOJ Attorney Reportedly Used AI to File Brief With Purportedly Fabricated Quotes and Misstated Case Holdings

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Judicial integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1434
    2 Reports

    DOJ Attorney Reportedly Used AI to File Brief With Purportedly Fabricated Quotes and Misstated Case Holdings

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Epistemic integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 1434
    2 Reports

    DOJ Attorney Reportedly Used AI to File Brief With Purportedly Fabricated Quotes and Misstated Case Holdings

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Unknown large language models

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 1434
    2 Reports

    DOJ Attorney Reportedly Used AI to File Brief With Purportedly Fabricated Quotes and Misstated Case Holdings

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