Even the fancy lawyers are getting pantsed by AI.
Sullivan and Cromwell, the law firm representing President Trump in many of his cases and which handled the SpaceX and xAI merger, was just forced to apologize to a federal judge for filing documents full of fake case citations hallucinated by AI. The list of errors ran three pages long, the NYT reports. Just the latest in the legal profession forgetting that language is not actually intelligence. [Link: A.I. ‘Hallucinations’ Created Errors in Court Filing, Top Law Firm Says | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/nyregion/sullivan-cromwell-ai-hallucination.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share | The New York Times]
Sullivan and Cromwell, the law firm representing President Trump in many of his cases and which handled the SpaceX and xAI merger, was just forced to apologize to a federal judge for filing documents full of fake case citations hallucinated by AI. The list of errors ran three pages long, the NYT reports. Just the latest in the legal profession forgetting that language is not actually intelligence. [Link: A.I. ‘Hallucinations’ Created Errors in Court Filing, Top Law Firm Says | | The New York Times]
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