{"id":185805,"date":"2026-02-09T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/frustrated-judge-tosses-case-with-fake-ai-citations-references-to-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:35:14","slug":"frustrated-judge-tosses-case-with-fake-ai-citations-references-to-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/frustrated-judge-tosses-case-with-fake-ai-citations-references-to-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated judge tosses case with fake AI citations, references to Ray Bradbury&#8217;s &#8216;Fahrenheit 451&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/frustrated-judge-tosses-case-with-fake-AI-citations-references-to-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451\">Frustrated judge tosses case with fake AI citations, references to Ray Bradbury&#8217;s &#8216;Fahrenheit 451&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/frustrated-judge-tosses-case-with-fake-AI-citations-references-to-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451\">https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/frustrated-judge-tosses-case-with-fake-AI-citations-references-to-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-09 11:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.abajournal.com\">www.abajournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summarized list of key points based on the provided article:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A New York federal judge, Katherine Polk Failla, dismissed a case due to the improper use of artificial intelligence (AI) by attorney Steven Feldman.<br \/>\n&#8211; Feldman repeatedly submitted documents filled with fake citations and unusual references, including extensive quotes from Ray Bradbury&#8217;s novel &#8220;Fahrenheit 451.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Despite suspicions that Feldman used AI, he claimed to have written the passages himself to include &#8220;personal things,&#8221; referencing his past familiarity with Bradbury\u2019s work.<br \/>\n&#8211; Judge Failla noted the \u201cextraordinary\u201d nature of Feldman\u2019s submissions, describing them with florid prose and metaphors that stray substantially from typical legal language.<br \/>\n&#8211; The judge finally concluded that sanctions were warranted due to the persistent misuse of AI within Feldman\u2019s documents, ultimately leading to the termination of the case.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frustrated judge tosses case with fake AI citations, references to Ray Bradbury&#8217;s &#8216;Fahrenheit 451&#8217; https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/news\/article\/frustrated-judge-tosses-case-with-fake-AI-citations-references-to-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/images\/main_images\/Farenheit451.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-185805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185807,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185805\/revisions\/185807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}