{"id":146337,"date":"2026-03-18T08:05:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/18\/ai-hallucinations-and-judicial-derangements\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:05:48","slug":"ai-hallucinations-and-judicial-derangements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/18\/ai-hallucinations-and-judicial-derangements\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Hallucinations And Judicial Derangements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was Legalweek last week, and we discuss the big happenings from the show \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/legalweek-2026-the-ai-bubble-literally-pops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which is pretty much all AI talk<\/a> \u2014 but while we saw splashy product announcements about the future of working as a lawyer within an AI-enhanced workflow, an assistant U.S. Attorney got bounced from the job for <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/doj-attorney-throws-himself-under-the-bus-rather-than-dragging-down-everyone-else\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">letting AI run too much of the workflow<\/a>. But the most imaginative large language models wouldn\u2019t have predicted <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/we-are-better-than-this-say-ninth-circuit-judges-despite-all-evidence-to-the-contrary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opening a federal judicial opinion with the phrase \u201cswinging dicks.\u201d<\/a> That takes a special level of deranged that\u2019s pure Judge Lawrence VanDyke. The certified non-qualified occupant of a Ninth Circuit seat kicked off an official taxpayer funded rant about wokeness framed as vulgar trolling to appeal to the White House. His colleagues \u2014 most of them anyway \u2014 issued a plea for decorum, that went basically nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/ai-hallucinations-and-judicial-derangements\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI Hallucinations And Judicial Derangements<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was Legalweek last week, and we discuss the big happenings from the show \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/legalweek-2026-the-ai-bubble-literally-pops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which is pretty much all AI talk<\/a> \u2014 but while we saw splashy product announcements about the future of working as a lawyer within an AI-enhanced workflow, an assistant U.S. Attorney got bounced from the job for <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/doj-attorney-throws-himself-under-the-bus-rather-than-dragging-down-everyone-else\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">letting AI run too much of the workflow<\/a>. But the most imaginative large language models wouldn\u2019t have predicted <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/we-are-better-than-this-say-ninth-circuit-judges-despite-all-evidence-to-the-contrary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opening a federal judicial opinion with the phrase \u201cswinging dicks.\u201d<\/a> That takes a special level of deranged that\u2019s pure Judge Lawrence VanDyke. The certified non-qualified occupant of a Ninth Circuit seat kicked off an official taxpayer funded rant about wokeness framed as vulgar trolling to appeal to the White House. His colleagues \u2014 most of them anyway \u2014 issued a plea for decorum, that went basically nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/03\/ai-hallucinations-and-judicial-derangements\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI Hallucinations And Judicial Derangements<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Legalweek last week, and we discuss the big happenings from the show \u2014 which is pretty much all AI talk \u2014 but while we saw splashy product announcements about the future of working as a lawyer within an AI-enhanced workflow, an assistant U.S. Attorney got bounced from the job for letting AI run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-146337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146337","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=146337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}