{"id":128974,"date":"2025-07-31T06:42:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/31\/lawyers-getting-really-high-on-ai-hallucinations\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T06:42:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:42:24","slug":"lawyers-getting-really-high-on-ai-hallucinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/31\/lawyers-getting-really-high-on-ai-hallucinations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers Getting Really High On AI Hallucinations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It was a very bad week for lawyers and hallucinations. A federal judge had to withdraw an opinion with fake cites<\/a>. One Biglaw firm fired a partner over an invented case<\/a>, while another firm got tossed off a case over AI shenanigans<\/a>. And the scribe of Ashurbanipal got mercilessly trolled by a judge pointing out that his fake AI cite apology included\u2026 another fake cite<\/a>. Why does it seem like this is all getting worse? A Biglaw firm pushes its start date<\/a> leaving incoming associates in the lurch and Alina Habba might<\/a> be the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey. Or maybe not<\/a>. Or maybe yes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The post Lawyers Getting Really High On AI Hallucinations<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It was a very bad week for lawyers and hallucinations. A federal judge had to withdraw an opinion with fake cites<\/a>. One Biglaw firm fired a partner over an invented case<\/a>, while another firm got tossed off a case over AI shenanigans<\/a>. And the scribe of Ashurbanipal got mercilessly trolled by a judge pointing out that his fake AI cite apology included\u2026 another fake cite<\/a>. Why does it seem like this is all getting worse? A Biglaw firm pushes its start date<\/a> leaving incoming associates in the lurch and Alina Habba might<\/a> be the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey. Or maybe not<\/a>. Or maybe yes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The post Lawyers Getting Really High On AI Hallucinations<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a very bad week for lawyers and hallucinations. A federal judge had to withdraw an opinion with fake cites. One Biglaw firm fired a partner over an invented case, while another firm got tossed off a case over AI shenanigans. And the scribe of Ashurbanipal got mercilessly trolled by a judge pointing out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128895,"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-128974","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-147461191-70ZSJR.jpg?fit=478%2C359&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128974","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=128974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}