An AI invented six court cases and a lawyer filed them

The scariest AI story I know isn't sci-fi. It's a lawyer who filed real court papers built on six cases that never existed.

An AI made them up, quotes and all, and he didn't check.

He got sanctioned. And it's happened hundreds of times since, mostly to people who trusted a confident answer and skipped the thirty seconds of verifying.

Here's the part that matters for us as operators: the same tool that saves you hours will hand you a fabricated fact in the exact same tone as a real one. Nothing flashes red.

So before you put AI anywhere near a client, a contract, or a number, three free habits carry most of the weight:

• Ask it where the answer came from

• Click any source it cites

• Verify anything that carries a real consequence

Which of those three do you actually skip when you're busy?

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An AI invented six court cases and a lawyer filed them