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Supreme Court quashes Rs 425-crore customs penalty after finding AI-hallucinated case laws

The Supreme Court of India quashed a Rs 425-crore customs penalty after discovering that the lower court's judgment relied on case laws that were either non-existent, had fake citations, or did not support the legal propositions attributed to them, an apparent 'hallucination of AI.'

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Supreme Court quashes Rs 425-crore customs penalty after finding AI-hallucinated case laws
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Supreme Court quashes Rs 425-crore customs penalty after finding AI-hallucinated case laws

SC found that some of the cases were non-existent or carried fake citations, while others that did exist did not lay down the legal propositions attributed to them — an apparent “hallucination of AI.”

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