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Case Law Invented by AI and the Fine of Ten Minimum Wages
A lawyer from Juazeiro (BA) was fined over a filing with fake rulings generated by AI and blamed the document on an intern.
- Profession
- Lawyer
- Tools
- IA generativa
- Source
- migalhas.com.br ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- July 29, 2025
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
A filing in a criminal homicide case cited rulings from higher courts that do not exist and distorted passages of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CPP), all generated by an AI tool.
How it went
The judge imposed a fine of ten minimum monthly wages. The lawyer acknowledged a failure in supervision.
Good to know
Whoever signs is responsible for interns and for tools. Every citation must be checked on the court's website.
The prompt
List in a table all the citations of court rulings and statute articles in this text [paste], with case number, court and date, so I can check each one manually on the official website. Flag the ones you can't guarantee exist.
Replace what is in [brackets]. Prompt written by us from the account, not a literal copy of the source. Do not paste other people’s personal data (privacy laws such as LGPD and GDPR apply).
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