Why lawyers keep citing fake cases invented by AI
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Lawyers keep citing fake court cases generated by AI, and courts have now documented over 1,400 such errors in three years. The problem goes beyond law — journalists, researchers, and government workers have also been burned by AI "hallucinations." Studies show people trust AI even knowing it makes mistakes, partly because its confident-sounding wrong answers feel believable. Warnings help somewhat, but workplace pressure and improving AI performance make people less likely to verify outputs.
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