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Oregon Court Fines Attorney For AI Hallucinations
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A court in Oregon this month fined attorney Bill Ghiorso $10,000 after he filed a brief containing 15 fabricated citations and nine bogus quotations, the Oregonian reports. The three-judge panel had calculated $16,500 under its $500-per-fake-citation and $1,000-per-false-quotation formula but capped the sanction at $10,000, underscoring judicial scrutiny of AI-generated legal research.
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- Read OriginalAttorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Casesgizmodo.com
