WASHINGTON – To a layman, the citations filed in an appeal of a denied Social Security claim sounded plausible, if not outright impressive: Brown v. Colvin. Wofford v. Berryhill. Hobbs v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration.

Each citation bore a case number and the initials of a judge in the federal court for the District of Arizona.

All of those judges exist. The three cases do not.

As AI spreads in the workplace and classroom, it has crept increasingly into the courthouse.

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The AI Hallucination Cases database – maintained by Damien Charlotin, a researcher at HEC Paris, a leading business school in France – identifies a half-dozen federal court filings in Arizona since September 2024 that include fabrica

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