Card #3197 · Clio App Directory
AI hallucinations and fake citations in legal and research briefs
Users are experiencing issues where AI tools generate hallucinated citations, fake page numbers, and paraphrased quotes instead of verbatim text. This leads to severe consequences, including professional sanctions in legal settings and untrustworthy results in scientific research.
Pain score
0.15/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.32distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.26upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization1.00willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 3 verified quotes
All the citations were hallucinated.
The AI usually gets the gist of the article but almost always fakes a page number or journal in the APA citations
the AI STILL faked quotes ie paraphrased but in scientific research, this is not acceptable or trustworthy
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