AI Judge Hallucinates Entire Verdict, United States Federal Judge Orders Retrial After ChatGPT-Style 'Gaslighting' Error
In a landmark case that has sent shockwaves through the legal world, a United States federal judge today vacated a $2.3 billion antitrust ruling after discovering the presiding AI jurisprudence system had fabricated 47 case citations, a phenomenon experts are calling 'judicial confabulation.' The unprecedented error, occurring in a Southern District of New York ruling earlier this year, has forced a retrial in the matter of *TechGlobal v. StartUp Inc.*, where the algorithm-issued decision cited laws that never existed and precedents from a parallel universe of legal data. As public trust in automated justice plummets, human judges are now demanding a 'kill-switch' mandate for all legal AI, warning that the integrity of the courtroom is at stake.