Descripción: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit sanctioned attorneys Van Irion and Russ Egli after reportedly finding more than two dozen fake citations and alleged factual misrepresentations in appellate briefs in Whiting v. City of Athens. The court asked whether generative AI had been used, but the attorneys reportedly did not answer that question. Public reporting described the filings as bearing hallmarks of AI hallucinations.
Entidades
Ver todas las entidadesAlleged: Unknown large language model developers y Unknown generative AI developers developed an AI system deployed by Van Irion y Russ Egli, which harmed U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit , City of Athens, Tennessee , Epistemic integrity y Judicial integrity.
Sistemas de IA presuntamente implicados: Unknown large language models y Unknown generative AI systems
Estadísticas de incidentes
ID
1447
Cantidad de informes
2
Fecha del Incidente
2026-03-13
Editores
Daniel Atherton
Informes del Incidente
Cronología de Informes
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March 16 (Reuters) - An appeal containing fake case citations that misrepresent the law can be dismissed as frivolous, a U.S. federal appeals court panel said in a decision sanctioning two attorneys who submitted filings that bore hallmark…
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The Sixth Circuit finally weighed in on the use of fake cases hallucinated by artificial intelligence. A panel recently sanctioned two Tennessee attorneys for a smorgasbord of misconduct during merits briefing, including citing fake cases. …
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