Judge Reportedly Disqualifies Butler Snow Lawyers Following Purported Use of ChatGPT-Fabricated Citations in Alabama Prison Litigation
Date: 2025-05-07
Affected: Butler Snow, Matthew B. Reeves, Openai, William Cranford, William Lunsford
Attack vector: misinformation
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #1196: Judge Reportedly Disqualifies Butler Snow Lawyers Following Purported Use of ChatGPT-Fabricated Citations in Alabama Prison Litigation. Alleged deployer/developer: Butler Snow, Matthew B. Reeves, Openai, William Cranford, William Lunsford. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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