Kerfuffle of the day — 4 October 2026
Cited six court decisions that do not exist
ChatGPT · Work · 4 October 2026
Rank
#1
€13 paid
Damage
$5,000 sanction
Self-reported
First paid
1d ago
Board frozen
Lawyers used a chatbot to research a personal injury case. It supplied six fabricated precedents with convincing citations and quotes. When challenged, it insisted the cases were real and available on Westlaw and LexisNexis. The judge described one analysis as gibberish and fined the firm $5,000.
Contexthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_v._Avianca,_Inc.
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