AI Tools ‘Hallucinate’ False Legal Content Up to 88 Percent of the Time: Study

Published on January 16, 2024

AI models generate fake legal content frequently, with such “hallucination rates” happening 69 to 88 percent of the time in popular models, according to a recent study by researchers from Stanford and Yale. The preprint study, published in Arxiv on Jan. 2, investigated the propensity of Large Language Models (LLMs) to “hallucinate” when faced with legal queries. LLMs are a type of AI that uses deep learning and large amounts of data to understand, summarize, and generate new content. In the legal field, hallucination is the tendency of AI models to generate content that is not based on actual legal facts or well-established legal principles and precedences....

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