Judge Nina Y. Wang sanctioned Christopher Kachouroff and his firm, jointly, and co-counsel Jennifer DeMaster $3,000 each over a February 25, 2025 filing in Coomer v. Lindell containing nearly thirty defective citations, including cases that do not exist. Kachouroff conceded the brief had been run through AI; the court rejected their explanation that a draft was filed by mistake.
U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik ruled on July 7 that tens of millions of Alexa users can pursue a nationwide class action alleging Amazon deceptively recorded private conversations and failed to disclose it kept and used recordings for commercial gain. Amazon denies wrongdoing and says there is no evidence Alexa "ever captured any plaintiff's 'conversation'".
Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman's office sued on July 2, alleging RealPage and nine real-estate companies have since at least 2016 illegally conspired to share private financial data and keep rents artificially high using RealPage's pricing algorithm. The suit alleges federal antitrust and Kentucky consumer-protection violations; RealPage did not respond to requests for comment.
Taiwan's Central News Agency said it filed a criminal complaint after finding in early March 2025 that fineweb-zhtw, a Traditional Chinese dataset for training large language models shared in a Facebook group, contained about 140,000 of its articles from 2011 to 2021 without authorisation. Investigators have questioned the sharer; the group's administrator said there was no profit motive.
Scammers using dozens of deepfake videos of figures including Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron and Benjamin Netanyahu, plus fake WhatsApp investor groups, lured Israelis into Ostin Technology Group stock from April, according to the Israeli Internet Association. The stock then collapsed, down nearly 93% at one point; two victims lost 250,000 and 150,000 shekels.
Crypto scammers ran YouTube Live streams of a deepfaked Donald Trump, apparently at the June 25 NATO summit in the Netherlands, urging viewers to scan a QR code and send Bitcoin to get double back. Some streams were suspended, but duplicates stayed live, some with thousands of viewers or followers.
Wright Brothers Aero's bid protest over a Defense Logistics Agency jet-fuel contract cited "Tech Systems, Inc., B-403103.2", a GAO decision that does not exist; the firm acknowledged the citation was introduced by AI-based software. Dismissing the protest as untimely on July 7, 2025, GAO imposed no sanctions but warned future citations to non-existent authority may bring them.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Refusing landlord Assethold Limited permission to appeal a Luton service-charge decision on 7 July 2025, a First-tier Tribunal said several cases in its grounds, including "Petzl v Avison", could not be found and others carried wrong references or unrecognisable summaries. It said "it would appear that an AI tool was used", disproportionately engaging its resources.
