Saw the Reuters piece from earlier this month and it stuck with me. A US appeals court sanctioned two lawyers for filing briefs full of cases that do not exist, the kind that came out of a chatbot. The court called it a lack of candor, which is the polite version. What gets me is this is not the first time and clearly not the last. There is a whole database tracking these now, over a thousand entries. The pattern is always the same. The model writes something that reads like a real citation, t...