Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
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A state supreme court holding a lawyer in contempt and fining him $5,000 for AI-fabricated witnesses makes “I trusted the model” a sanctioned offense, not a training issue. Any regulated workflow using LLMs needs explicit verification steps and policy language today, or you’re leaving individuals to absorb the legal risk.
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