A note on “AI hallucinations” in court filings
Ferrer’s brief flags a “phony” case citation—an apparent AI hallucination—offered to justify control over a non-party’s subpoena response (pp. 4–5). This is more than a rhetorical flourish: judges have sanctioned fake citations nationwide. As a legal analyst who builds AI-assisted drafting workflows, I’ll add this practical observation—guardrails that hard-block unverifiable citations are no longer optional. (On my Patreon, I share bar-compliant, hallucination-resistant prompt templates for lawyers, judges, and pro se users; I mention it here only because the risk Ferrer describes is exactly the risk those guardrails and templates are designed to eliminate.)
