2026-09-20T23:22:28.549Z
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DOJ Attorney Reportedly Used AI to File Brief With Purportedly Fabricated Quotes and Misstated Case Holdings
In Fivehouse v. U.S. Department of Defense, Assistant U.S. Attorney Rudy Renfer filed a response brief that the court reportedly said contained fabricated quotations and misstatements of case holdings. Renfer reportedly admitted he had used AI to help draft the inaccurate filing after losing an earlier draft. The court reportedly also identified similar fabricated quotations in other filings signed by Renfer.
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Reported occurrence date: 2026-03-02T00:00:00.000Z
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- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2026-03-07T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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