made-up-sources on Good Catchhttps://goodcatch.in/tags/made-up-sources/Recent content in made-up-sources on Good CatchHugoen-USThu, 15 Oct 2026 08:43:00 +0530Three courts, one problem: people quoting court cases that AI made uphttps://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-courts-made-up-cases-northwest/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:43:00 +0530https://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-courts-made-up-cases-northwest/In September, courts in Washington, Oregon and Idaho all got papers citing cases that do not exist. One person was fined; another had their arguments thrown out.Lawyers apologise to a federal judge after Claude put made-up quotes in their court papershttps://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-lawyers-claude-made-up-quotes/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:38:00 +0530https://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-lawyers-claude-made-up-quotes/Short on time, a lawyer had Claude write a court filing. The cases were real, but quotes from them were not.Big consulting firm pulls a report after most of its sources turn out fake or wronghttps://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-ey-report-made-up-sources/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:36:00 +0530https://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-ey-report-made-up-sources/More than 70% of the 27 sources in an EY report were made up or wrong, and it had already run in over 60 Australian newspapers.South Africa withdraws its national AI plan because it cited research that doesn't existhttps://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-south-africa-ai-policy-fake-sources/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:34:00 +0530https://goodcatch.in/posts/2026-10-15-south-africa-ai-policy-fake-sources/At least six of the plan’s 67 sources were made up. The minister said AI-made references were ‘included without proper verification.’