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"path": "/2026/03/16/a-reddit-post-an-ai-hallucination-and-two-lawyers-who-never-checked-citations-walk-into-a-dog-custody-case/",
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"textContent": "We’ve been covering the growing parade of lawyers submitting AI-hallucinated case citations to courts for a while now. It keeps happening, and courts keep having to deal with it. But the pattern is usually the same: a careless attorney uses ChatGPT to draft a brief, the fake citations get spotted by the opposing side or […]",
"title": "A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case"
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