Three private attorneys representing Alabama’s prison system have been sanctioned and removed from a federal case after a judge found they submitted court filings containing fake case law generated by ChatGPT.
In a sharply worded order issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco reprimanded Matthew Reeves, William Cranford and William Lunsford of the Butler Snow law firm for citing nonexistent legal cases, what she called “hallucinations” produced by the AI chatbot.
“In simpler terms, the citations were completely made up,” Manasco wrote…