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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Mark Sweney

AI hallucinations found in high-profile Wall Street law firm filing

The Prince Bank logo on side of building.
The legal filing in the Prince Group case misquoted the US bankruptcy code and citied cases incorrectly. Photograph: AFP

The elite Wall Street law firm Sullivan & Cromwell has told a court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained errors resulting from hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence.

Andrew Dietderich, the co-head of the firm’s global restructuring group, apologised in a letter to the New York federal judge Martin Glenn on Saturday for the string of mistakes, which included inaccurate citations.

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