The Briefs Full of Cases That Never Existed
An appellate lawyer filed one set of hallucinated citations, then tried to withdraw a different set that the court said was hallucinated too.
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They Trusted AI
Documented cases where people trusted AI output with real-world authority and paid for the missing verification step.
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Nine Seconds to Delete Production
A coding agent found a broad cloud token, deleted PocketOS's production volume, and turned a nine-second action into a sixty-hour recovery.
He Asked for a Salt Alternative and Got Bromide
A patient reported replacing table salt with sodium bromide after consulting ChatGPT, then spent three weeks in the hospital with bromide toxicity.
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