Penalties up to criminal prosecution.

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FREDERICK AYINDE Claimant and THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HARINGEY Defendant: Approved Judgement (PDF) https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2025/1040.pdf

The use of artificial intelligence in courts: a warning https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/69890/artificial-intelligence-in-courts-a-warning

High Court considers initiating contempt of court proceedings against lawyers over fake citation cases https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/barrister-did-not-appreciate-seriousness-of-fake-citations-high-court-hears/5123387.article

Approved Judgement https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2025/1383.html

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Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor Anthropic https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/18/latest-ai-hallucinated-legal-filing-from-ai-vendor-anthropic/

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Hey. I’m Natasha, your AI companion.

Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/06/builder-ai-even-more-fake-creative-accounting-no-ai-no-money/

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Voluntary Petition for Non-Individuals Filing for Bankruptcy (PDF) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.deb.197187/gov.uscourts.deb.197187.1.0.pdf

How this Microsoft-backed billion-dollar London startup made 700 engineers sitting in India pose as AI tool https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/how-this-billion-dollar-london-startup-backed-by-microsoft-made-700-engineers-sitting-in-india-pose-as-ai/articleshow/121572659.cms

Fake it till you unicorn? Builder.ai’s Natasha was never AI – just 700 Indian coders behind the curtain https://techfundingnews.com/fake-it-till-you-unicorn-builder-ais-natasha-was-never-ai-just-700-indian-coders-behind-the-curtain/

Inside the collapse of Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai https://www.ft.com/content/67f0277a-10fd-463c-8946-af0be2b4028f

US Prosecutors Sought Builder.ai Data After Sales Overstated https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-26/us-prosecutors-sought-builder-ai-data-after-sales-overstated

Builder.ai owes money to corporate spies and defamation lawyers https://www.ft.com/content/ef37280d-2fe5-4512-8455-dc8724fd1521

Builder.ai Faked Business With Indian Firm VerSe to Inflate Sales, Sources Say https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-30/builder-ai-faked-business-with-indian-firm-verse-to-inflate-sales-sources-say

Hey. I’m Natasha, your AI companion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D36ZmJRYGK8

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UK AI unicorn Builder․ai is dead — the downfall of “AGI”: A Guy Instead https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/21/uk-ai-unicorn-builder-ai-is-dead-the-downfall-of-agi-a-guy-instead/

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Vibe coding and chatbot girlfriends

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AI-first - We're just 6 months away from AGI ;-) https://revontulet.dev/p/2025-ai-first/

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

How much of AI's recent success is due to the Forer Effect? https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/02/how-much-of-ais-recent-success-is-due-to-the-forer-effect/

Is GenAI Digital Cocaine? https://makemeacto.substack.com/p/is-genai-digital-cocaine

“try replacing ‘ai’ with ‘cocaine’ in all the posts you read about it. it's pretty funny” https://www.linkedin.com/posts/natalieponte_try-replacing-ai-with-cocaine-in-all-activity-7336023313137229824-APP0/

Hooked by Nir Eyal: https://amzn.to/43JdtlG (UK), https://amzn.to/4dPIA3x (US)

Wikipedia: Barnum effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect

More cribs from Stephen Farrugia in this episode, go watch his videos https://www.youtube.com/@fasterandworse

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Duolingo replaces its contractors with AI, courses with slop https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/04/duolingo-replaces-its-contractors-with-ai-courses-with-slop/

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