Courts on AI / Fabricated or misquoted citations
Rhonda L. H.-B. v. Commissioner of Social Security
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York · Federal district courts · NY · · No. 1:26-cv-00425-PAE-BCM · report and recommendation
The Southern District of New York on 2026-04-27 allowed refiling but warned the self-represented plaintiff after AI-like placeholders and repeated nonsensical text appeared in Rhonda L. H.-B. v. Commissioner of Social Security. The self-represented plaintiff filed an opposition with two fabricated or AI-like submission items.
- Disposition
- The court allowed refiling but warned the self-represented plaintiff after AI-like placeholders and repeated nonsensical text appeared.
- Recorded conduct
- The self-represented plaintiff filed an opposition with two fabricated or AI-like submission items. — outcome: warning; actor: litigant in person
- Canonical record
- Incident tracker entry — verified outcome, regulator disposition and related rules
What the court wrote
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and • a 179-page "Memorandum of Law in Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Dismiss and in Support of Emergency Relief, Mandamus, and Judicial Enforcement. " (Dkt. 40 at 3. ) As discussed in more detail below, portions of plaintiff's papers appear to constitute the unedited output of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Plaintiff's Motions to Vacate and Strike are Denied Plaintiff's letter-motion to vacate the March 24, 2026 deadline for the Commissioner to file the CAR (Dkt. 19) is DENIED AS MOOT in light of the filing of the Commissioner's Rule 12(b)(1) motion on March 9, 2026. See Supp. Soc.
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