Supreme Court: Citing Fake AI-Generated Case Laws Amounts to Judicial Misconduct

The Supreme Court recently observed that delivering a judicial decision based on non-existent, AI-generated case laws constitutes misconduct rather than a mere legal error.

A Bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe took note of an Andhra Pradesh trial court order that cited several "hallucinated" judgments in a property dispute.

The Court emphasized that using synthetic or fake precedents directly impacts the integrity of the adjudicatory process.

Consequently, the Bench stayed the trial court's proceedings and appointed an amicus curiae to help examine the legal consequences and accountability for such technological lapses in the judiciary.

[Gummadi Usha Rani & Anr. v. Sure Mallikarjuna Rao & Anr.]