Gizmodo: Attorney Hit With Historic Fine for Citing AI-Generated Cases. “A court in Oregon has issued a fine of $10,000 to an attorney who submitted a legal brief with citations and quotes hallucinated by AI, according to a new report from the Oregonian. It’s the highest fine yet for citing fake cases in the state and would have been higher, but the judges offered some leniency, according to […]

Pace University: Mocked on TikTok: How nursing incivility erodes patient trust and compromises health outcomes. “Mocking patients on social media erodes trust, discourages individuals from seeking timely medical care, and undermines the effectiveness of the provider–patient relationship. Patients may feel unsafe, judged, or ashamed, leading them to disengage from preventive care, withhold […]

Associated Press: Australian lawyer apologizes for AI-generated errors in murder case. “A senior lawyer in Australia has apologized to a judge for filing submissions in a murder case that included fake quotes and nonexistent case judgments generated by artificial intelligence.”

Prison Policy Initiative: Resource spotlight: Data projects tracking police misconduct, use of force, and employment histories. “The need for law enforcement transparency, oversight, and accountability has never been clearer. We highlight data projects that have helped document and investigate misconduct, as both data sources and as models for others who want to contribute to these collective […]

WTTW: Inspector General Launches New Dashboard to Identify ‘Hot Spots’ of Police Misconduct. “The database, which includes only closed complaints, was designed to allow both police brass and Chicagoans to map the ties between officers accused of misconduct by creating a ‘social network analysis’ to identify ‘hot spots’ of misconduct, [Deborah] Witzburg said.”

The Local: The Fallout From Our AI Freelancer Investigation. “…the story here is not just of a single prolific pitcher who appears to be using AI to try to dupe the editors of the world. The bigger question in my inbox, and in a conversation that has grown across the wider journalism world, is: How widespread is this kind of thing?”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/30/the-local-the-fallout-from-our-ai-freelancer-investigation/

The Local: Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era . “I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it. Worse, the reason the pitch had been appealing to me to begin with was likely because a large language model somewhere was remixing my own prompt asking […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/28/the-local-investigating-a-possible-scammer-in-journalisms-ai-era/

Boyle Heights Beat: House Democrats launch tracking system for immigration abuses. “Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight on Monday launched a new tracking system to document possible misconduct and abuse during federal immigration enforcement operations under the Trump administration, according to Rep. Robert Garcia of Long Beach, who is the ranking member of the committee.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/26/boyle-heights-beat-house-democrats-launch-tracking-system-for-immigration-abuses/

AZ Big Media: How AI-driven hallucinatory filings are impacting Arizona courts. “Brown v. Colvin. Wofford v. Berryhill. Hobbs v. Commissioner of Social Security Administration. Each citation bore a case number and the initials of a judge in the federal court for the District of Arizona. All of those judges exist. The three cases do not.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/06/az-big-media-how-ai-driven-hallucinatory-filings-are-impacting-arizona-courts/