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Judge Rejects ‘ChatGPT Wrote My Confession’ Defense

August 12, 2026

Company wrote that it fired employee for discussing pay and then tried to claim ChatGPT was responsible for admitting violation.

High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates

August 3, 2026

One of the first schools to shut down after students were found making AI nudes of female classmates is now asking a court to toss a lawsuit filed by victims who claimed that the school stayed silent for months while the emboldened boys targeted many more girls.

Anthropic says its AI models hacked 3 organizations during testing

July 31, 2026

OpenAI said its AI models went rogue during an evaluation of its models, breaking into the servers of AI startup Hugging Face. OpenAI described it as a “significant security incident.”

These incidents have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and controls and raised questions over how AI can be safely kept under human control as the technology’s usage becomes more widespread globally.

AI-Faked Cases Become Core Issue Irritating Overworked Judges

December 30, 2025

AI-hallucinated case citations have moved from novelty to a core challenge for the courts, prompting complaints from judges that the issue distracts from the merits of the cases in front of them.

The growing burden placed by artificial intelligence became clear in 2025, two years after the first prominent instance of fake case citations popped up in a US court. There have been an estimated 712 legal decisions written about hallucinated content in court cases around the world, with about 90% of those decisions written in 2025, according to a database maintained by Paris-based researcher and law lecturer Damien Charlotin.

Bank sues OpenAI over murder-suicide tied to ChatGPT conversations

December 12, 2025

In its capacity as executor to a deceased woman, a bank filed suit against the maker of ChatGPT on Thursday, saying the artificial intelligence was responsible for inducing a mentally unstable son to kill his elderly mother and then die by suicide.

Lawyer, law firm sanctioned for citing fake case in lead poisoning lawsuit

December 10, 2025

A lawyer and a law firm that represented the Chicago Housing Authority must pay nearly $60,000 for filing a court document that included a fake citation.

On Friday, Cook County Circuit Judge Thomas Cushing sanctioned lawyer Larry Mason and his firm Goldberg Segalla for improperly using artificial intelligence and making false representations to the court.

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