Earlier this year, a lawyer filed a motion in a Texas bankruptcy court that cited a 1985 case called Brasher v. Stewart.

Only the case doesn’t exist. Artificial intelligence had concocted that citation, along with 31 others. A judge blasted the lawyer in an opinion, referring him to the state bar’s disciplinary committee and mandating six hours of AI training.

That filing was spotted by Robert Freund, a Los Angeles-based lawyer, who fed it to an online database that tracks legal AI misuse globally.

Freund is part of a growing network of lawyers who track down AI abuses committed by their peers, collecting the most egregious examples and posting them online. The group hopes that by tracking down the AI slop, it can help draw attention to the problem and put an end to it.

While judges an

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