Six people in Palm Beach County Florida Civil juries in Florida are comprised of only six people. awarded 85 year-old golfer Jack Nicklaus FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS in compensation on the grounds he was defamed by an allegation he was no longer competent to handle his business affairs.
The six werenβt spending their own money.
Who do you think has to pay?
We’ve just seen the first example Maybe “one of the first.”of non-legal AI hallucinations in the wild, where ChatGPT claimed to solve ten previously unsolved ErdΓΆs math problems. Heretofore, AI hallucinations were confined to “invented” legal cases. But is this really a problem? Lawyering is an easy target for AI hallucinations because cases are the bricks of any legal structure and there is simply so much law with new cases coming out every day that a missing brick can easily be replaced with an invented one. We all know π΄πππππ π right? Do you know the full cite offhand? Probably not. Is there any State that hasn’t followed π΄πππππ π? No. So there’s really no harm to make one up, right? That’s the trap AI has fallen into, because it’s not really a reasoning model.
Has there been a single case where AI invented a case that purported to overturn π΄πππππ π? No. Or π©ππππ π. π©ππππ ππ π¬π πππππππ? Instead, AI hallucinations (for the most part) merely “support” well-founded legal principles. It’s a safe bet that Wyoming has its own version of the Statute of Frauds, or simply follows the common law. A hallucinated case that states this does no real harm. If a common law jurisdiction were to throw out the Statute of Frauds, that would be astonishing and a hallucinated case that so held easily discovered.
ChatGPT’s AI just claimed it had solved 10 previous unsolved ErdΓΆs math problems. Turns out the problems had been solved by others but the ErdΓΆs math problems web page hadn’t been updated with the solutions. ChatGPT merely found the papers where mathematicians had solved the problems and presented their work as its own.
There really isn’t too much of a danger with fake legal citations. Let’s not clutch our pearls in horror just yet. Lots of legal work doesn’t involve case citations anyway. Local citations are useless in international business and arbitrations. It could be well-argued that other than crim law and personal injury, they don’t really matter. If hallucinations cause a decrease in published opinions, this is probably a good thing, especially when a subscription to the Federal Reporter comes in at an eye-watering $30k per annum.
Running a test. If you want to read about Schooling for Seniors: https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/26186/2025/back-to-school-2.pdf
(true story, novella length) A planned meeting with an NSA general in Geneva; an intelligence network operating in Syria set up by a Saudi king; a meeting on 26 June 2023 with DoJ growing out of the 1MDB scandal; the aftermath of the Mariscal Sucre drilling project off the coast of Venezuela, a Russian hypersonic missile specialist seeking to defect; the location of kidnapped American journalist/spy/law student/ex-Marine Austin Tice; a CIA signer of the Hunter Biden laptop letter and meth smuggling routes out of Syria through Jordan and the UAE.
No Marriage, No Children, No Future Save the Pilots, Save the Load, Save Yourself Just posted: Girl, Taken. The true story of how ISIS killed Kayla.
A planned meeting with a NSA general in Geneva; an intelligence network operating in Syria set up by a Saudi king; a meeting on 26 June 2023 with DoJ growing out of the 1MDB scandal; the aftermath of the Mariscal Sucre drilling project off the coast of Venezuela, a Russian hypersonic missile specialist seeking to defect; the location of kidnapped American journalist/spy/law student/ex-Marine Austin Tice; a CIA signer of the Hunter Biden laptop letter and meth smuggling routes out of Syria through Jordan and the UAE.
In January 2024, my colleague crowbarred me into a conference call with Oliver Stanford, a potential client in New York who had been beaten up by a gang. The story, as relayed to me, was that Oliver was so traumatized by the incident that he wanted to leave the United States to live under a new identity. I didnβt see this as a matter I could help with. Oliver was an attorney and if he needed a new name he could simply apply for one.
Marguerite Duras published her autobiographical novel The Lover in 1984. Though she was already an accomplished novelist and filmmaker, it is that book in which she spoke of her childhood in Vietnam that made her a global figure. Having grown up in Vietnam, Duras spoke Vietnamese. She left Vietnam in 1932 and never returned. In France she obtained a law degree. She was active in the Resistance during the German occupation.
The US hasnβt invaded Venezuela but crowed about destroying a fast boat that may or may not have been carrying drugs, that may or may not have been affiliated with Tren de Aragua and now weβll never know. We do know that there were eleven people on board. The federal courts teach us that βa prudent drug smuggler does not tolerate the presence of innocent bystanders.β Which means they were all in on it, but wait: you only need one or two to drive the boat, why carry an additional nine people and so greatly reduce your product-carrying capacity?
