
Sullivan & Cromwell Apologizes for AI-Hallucinated Citations in Court Filing
Sullivan & Cromwell has apologized to a federal judge after submitting a court filing with around 40 incorrect citations caused by AI hallucinations. The firm's emergency motion to the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York contained fabricated legal citations that slipped through the firm's review process despite existing AI policies. A rival law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP spotted the errors. The incident is part of a larger trend, with a database tracking 1,334 AI hallucination incidents in court filings globally.
