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The AI industry wants models to assist in legal battles, but will they help? - Engadget

AnnouncementProductSep 29, 2026

The Ontario Law Society Tribunal ordered lawyer Shahryar Mazaheri to pay $31,150 in June for submitting Grok-drafted filings containing fabricated citations. Despite such incidents, Google, Anthropic, and Elon Musk's SpaceXAI are marketing legal AI tools. Google put Gemini Enterprise for Legal into preview with four major firms, while Anthropic released Claude Legal Solutions, which routes queries to external legal databases. Researcher Damien Charlotin's database has cataloged nearly 2,000 cases of fabricated AI citations worldwide.

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