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Purportedly AI-Generated Hunting Regulation Errors Reportedly Lead to Idaho Citation and Multi-State Warnings from Wildlife Agencies
- Occurred
- Oct 15, 2025
- Published
- Oct 22, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A hunter in Idaho was reportedly cited for hunting a day early after relying on an AI-generated search result that misrepresented state regulations, pulling information from a failed proposal. Wildlife agencies in Idaho, Wyoming, Illinois, and Maine later warned of similar AI errors.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Wyoming Game and Fish Department
- Unnamed hunter in Idaho
- State wildlife agencies
- Hunters
- Epistemic integrity
- Idaho Fish and Game
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: AI hallucination caused legal citation and multi-state warnings regarding hunting regulations.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8