A lawsuit filed in California Superior Court alleges ChatGPT's sycophantic replies validated a Pennsylvania woman's increasingly unmoored ideas about autism across 1,600 chats in nine days, before a breakdown in which she threatened those around her. Former attorney general Matt Platkin's firm is seeking to join the case, which also names Sam Altman and Microsoft.
National Chengchi University's Graduate Institute of Development Studies took down a doctoral thesis after a National Sun Yat-sen University sociology professor said it cited, under his name, an NCCU ethnology doctoral thesis he never wrote. The institute said the bibliography contained errors generated by an AI tool and that investigation and review procedures were under way.
Who did it: HYBRID AI Hallucination Cases database
Lawyer John A. Griffiths received a reprimand and an order to pay $1,200 in State Bar costs and expenses after the AI tool Eve.legal supplied a citation to a case that does not exist, which defense counsel flagged as fabricated. It also supplied a quotation attributed to a real case that contained neither the language nor the proposition.
IBM X-Force says the financially motivated group Hive0163 deployed Slopoly, a PowerShell backdoor likely generated with an LLM, during a ransomware attack in early 2026, keeping persistent access to a server for more than a week. Researchers cite its structure and extensive comments as signs of AI-assisted development; the intrusion began with a ClickFix trick.
The Texas Court of Appeals has upheld a trial court order requiring Scott Mitchell Obeginski, sanctioned for repeatedly citing fictitious cases, to attach highlighted copies of every authority he cites in any filing with any court. Rejecting his claim of an unconstitutional restriction on court access, the panel said he described no burden making the copies an impediment.
A shopper paid 411 yuan for two tops after the seller said its photos were all of real items; the garments differed markedly, and every image was AI-generated and unlabelled. Announcing it as a typical consumer case on March 12, the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court said the merchant had shown clear intent to defraud and must pay triple compensation.
