Lawyers Apologize After Fake Claude-Generated Quotes Appear in Trump Layoffs Case
In briefLawyers in a federal layoffs case apologized after AI-generated “phantom quotations” appeared in a court filing.Attorney Jason Greaves said he used Anthropics Claude Console under “tight time constraints.”The filing stemmed from a subpoena dispute connected to FEMA layoffs challenged in federal court. A federal court fight over Donald Trump administration layoffs has become the latest example of AI hallucinations entering the courtroom after attorneys admitted submitting fabricated quotations generated by artificial intelligence. In a declaration filed on Friday, attorney Jason Greaves admitted the filing included fake quotations generated after he used Anthropics Claude Console to help prepare the motion. “Given the tight time constraints I used an enterprise level, data-isolated AI platform, Claude Console, to create an initial draft of the motion. That was a mistake,” Greaves wrote. “The morning of May 6, I sent the draft to an associate attorney, along with explicit, oral instructions that the draft had come from AI, and I needed the citations to be carefully checked. That afternoon, the associate informed me that she had reviewed and verified each citation.” According to Greaves, the associate noted that two cases cited were incorrect, but that she had found a different case to cite. “As the supervising partner, and the