The Fabricated-Citation Count Keeps Climbing: 2,217 Court Cases and a Phantom TorrentFreak Article

A tracked database of AI-hallucinated material in court filings has reached 2,217 cases, and a peer-reviewed paper was caught citing an article that never existed.

The hallucination problem is not being solved by better models — it is being documented by a growing body count. Damien Charlotin's database tracking AI-hallucinated material in court filings has reached 2,217 cases, according to @StartupHakk. That is a running tally of instances where lawyers submitted filings containing citations, quotes, or cases that an AI tool simply invented — and these are only the ones that got caught.

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