Universal Music Group, Concord and ABKCO sued Anthropic in 2023, alleging its Claude chatbot regurgitated their lyrics. In an August 11 filing they say Anthropic never disclosed that it used BitTorrent to copy books containing their works from pirate sites. They asked Judge Eumi K. Lee for leave to amend their complaint with the new allegations.
Rio Grande do Sul civil police made three preventive arrests across three states on Tuesday in a second phase of Operation Medici Umbra. Police say the gang recruited homeless people who resembled doctors over 60 and used AI to make their faces look more like the victims. With the altered selfies they passed facial biometric checks and opened bank accounts in the doctors' names.
Danielle Malaty, the lawyer who cited a ChatGPT-invented case while defending the Chicago Housing Authority, was fined $10 by Cook County Circuit Judge William Sullivan on July 16. The fine was for 12 hallucinated citations in an unrelated workplace case. She also paid opposing counsel $1,000. Her former firm, Goldberg Segalla, had a policy banning AI use.
A University of Hong Kong law student allegedly created hundreds of AI-generated explicit images of women, mostly fellow law students. His former girlfriend told the BBC that file metadata dates the earliest images to May 2024. The student received a warning letter and apologised. HKU says that does not close the case and it will take further action if necessary.
A Utah woman says she paid more than $400 for Prozenith weight-loss pills that she believed Oprah Winfrey endorsed, then found the main ingredient was turmeric. The Better Business Bureau's Scam Tracker logs numerous similar complaints. Winfrey has warned that brands use her likeness without consent, though she did not name Prozenith. Prozenith did not respond to the reporter.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Santa Catarina's Court of Justice fined a lawyer 10% of the case's value for bad-faith litigation and notified the São Paulo bar. The lawyer's appeals cited "absolutely fictitious" precedents, including quotes attributed to STJ justices that appear in no ruling. The court suggested the research may have been delegated to AI tools without anyone checking the results.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Plaintiff's counsel Saar Reshef admitted that a statement of claim cited nonexistent rulings. An intern in the office had found them using AI, and counsel did not check them. The Ashdod Magistrate's Court ordered counsel to pay the defendant ₪1,000 in costs. Judge Liora Edelstein declined to strike the claim and ordered it refiled without the "AI hallucinations" by September 1, 2025.
Monster Energy is seeking to enforce a $377 million judgment against Bang Energy founder Jack Owoc, who is appearing without a lawyer. Monster says Owoc's motion to dismiss appears to be AI-written, and Judge Panayotta D. Augustin-Birch counted at least 11 fake citations across two of his filings. Owoc apologised. The Florida federal judge is weighing whether to bar further filings without permission.
