{"id":126148,"date":"2025-07-09T14:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/09\/the-hallucinations-are-winning\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T22:03:18","slug":"the-hallucinations-are-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/09\/the-hallucinations-are-winning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hallucinations Are Winning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Has the era of the midsize firm come to an end? Probably not, but with increasing nationalization and the financial pressures that go along with it, midsize firms are consolidating<\/a> and a valuable segment (and price point!) may be lost. Lawyers have faced a steady stream of sanctions for citing fake cases generated by AI, but now a judge officially blessed an order based on AI-hallucinated cases<\/a> as a critical firewall in the war against machine slop is breached. While AI holds out promise for access to justice, the risk of a lawless free-for-all looms. Speaking of lawless free-for-alls, the Chief Justice explains that he doesn\u2019t care<\/a> about substantive criticism of the Court because he has votes and the critics don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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Has the era of the midsize firm come to an end? Probably not, but with increasing nationalization and the financial pressures that go along with it, midsize firms are consolidating<\/a> and a valuable segment (and price point!) may be lost. Lawyers have faced a steady stream of sanctions for citing fake cases generated by AI, but now a judge officially blessed an order based on AI-hallucinated cases<\/a> as a critical firewall in the war against machine slop is breached. While AI holds out promise for access to justice, the risk of a lawless free-for-all looms. Speaking of lawless free-for-alls, the Chief Justice explains that he doesn\u2019t care<\/a> about substantive criticism of the Court because he has votes and the critics don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The post The Hallucinations Are Winning<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Has the era of the midsize firm come to an end? Probably not, but with increasing nationalization and the financial pressures that go along with it, midsize firms are consolidating and a valuable segment (and price point!) may be lost. Lawyers have faced a steady stream of sanctions for citing fake cases generated by AI, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-1380874448-620x414-8TwbgM.jpeg?fit=620%2C414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}