A Federal Judge Rebuked the Acting Attorney General for an AI-Fabricated Case Citation

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's court filing was rejected after a judge found it likely AI-generated and citing a case that does not exist — moving the hallucination-in-legal-filings problem to the highest levels of government.

The AI-hallucination-in-court-filings genre has a new and unusually senior protagonist. According to @Meidas_LaurenA, a federal judge rebuked a court filing from Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche after determining it was "likely created by artificial intelligence" and that it cited a case that does not exist.

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