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Colorado Lawyer Filed a Motion Citing Hallucinated ChatGPT Cases
- Occurred
- Jun 13, 2023
- Published
- Nov 22, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A Colorado Springs attorney, Zachariah Crabill, mistakenly used hallucinated ChatGPT-generated legal cases in court documents. The AI software provided false case citations, leading to the denial of a motion and legal repercussions for Crabill, highlighting risks in using AI for legal research.
Developers
- OpenAI
- ChatGPT
Deployers
- Zachariah Crabill
Harmed parties
- Zachariah Crabill's client
- Zachariah Crabill
- Legal system
Tags
- generative AI
- law
- false citations
- court
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: AI hallucination caused legal motion denial and professional repercussions for the attorney.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8