Joann LeDoux v. Outliers, Inc.

Ficha del Equipo Editorial a partir de la base mundial AI Hallucination Cases de Damien Charlotin. Verifica siempre en la fuente original.

El 4 de febrero de 2026, W.D. Washington (Estados Unidos) conoció un asunto en el que un abogado se apoyó en una herramienta de IA generativa (no identificada en la decisión) y el expediente registró contenido alucinado.

Qué se alucinó

• Fabricación de jurisprudencia. Plaintiff cited a non-existent state-court decision, "Berg v. Chevrolet Motor Div., 84 Wn.2d 102, 108, 524 P.2d 226 (1974)"; court identified this citation as nonexistent and noted the correct authority was Baughn v. Honda Motor Co.
• Fabricación de norma legal. Plaintiff quoted text from RCW 7.72.010(2) that does not exist and altered statutory language (Dkt. 173-1 ¶ 59); court found the quoted provision nonexistent.
• Citas falsas de pruebas o escritos. Plaintiff cites a purported deposition quote from James Kababick about "post-production degradation of stimulant compounds" that does not appear in the cited transcript; court was unable to find the quote.
• Citas falsas de jurisprudencia. Plaintiff quoted language attributed to United States v. Hankey to support an evidentiary proposition, but the quoted phrase does not appear in Hankey.
• Citas falsas de jurisprudencia. Plaintiff included two quoted passages attributed to Fair v. King Cnty. that do not appear in the decision the brief cites; court found the quoted language absent.
• Citas falsas de jurisprudencia. Plaintiff quoted language not present in In re Washington Mut. (694 F. Supp. 2d 1192 (W.D. Wash. 2009)) and in a 2011 order (2011 WL 1158387); court found the cited phrases absent and that original use was for a different proposition.
• Fabricación de doctrina. Plaintiff's expert reports (Kababick and Shippee) cite multiple articles that do not exist or are misattributed (court reviewed a table of ~10 such faulty citations and found errors).
• Citas falsas de jurisprudencia. Plaintiff quoted language attributed to HSS Enters. v. AMCO Ins. (2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31659) that does not appear in that order (the phrase "harsh sanction" was not found).

Desenlace

Order to Show Cause. Sanción profesional: No.

Ficha del caso

Fuentes: aporte de /documents/1469/Ledoux_v._Outliers_USA_2026.pdf; base de datos de Damien Charlotin.

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