AI Hallucinations Send Man to Jail

A man is sitting in a cage right now because a prosecutor used an AI to invent laws that do not

exist. This isn't a sci-fi movie; this happened in Nevada County, California,

and it is the most terrifying beta test in American legal history. Here is exactly

what went down. The prosecutor’s office deployed AI to write criminal briefs because they

wanted to save time. The software spit out an argument citing six specific legal cases to justify

keeping a 57-year-old welder named Kyle Kjoller in jail. The problem? Not a single one

of those cases was real. The machine literally hallucinated six entire legal precedents,

complete with fake names and fake citations. It didn't say "I don't know." It just lied with