The Supreme Court, on Thursday, in the case of Pooja Ramesh Singh v. Jammu & Kashmir Bank Ltd. & Anr. called for a “zero-tolerance” approach towards AI-generated fake or hallucinated judicial precedents, holding that it is professional misconduct for advocates to cite such judgments without verification and a serious lapse on the part of judges to rely on such non-existent precedents while deciding cases.
The court set aside the judgments of the NCLAT and the NCLAT after finding that they had relied on AI-generated fake citations, a Bench of Justice PS Narasimha and Justice Alok Aradhe held that any decision tainted by fabricated or hallucinated precedents is “no decision in the eyes of law” and must be set aside to preserve the integrity of the judicial process.
The Court directed the Bar Council to take up this issue with utmost seriousness, and prescribe a guiding principle to prevent such occurrences, along with the disciplinary action that will follow the violation of the norms.