Austrian Supreme Court Gives AI-generated Appeal Short Shrift

The first AI-generated, hallucination-riddled appeal has reached the Austrian Supreme Court – and the court’s response was extraordinary (14 Os 95/25i).

Courts in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, and Australia have already confronted AI-generated fake citations and fabricated authorities in legal filings. Some imposed sanctions. Others warned of contempt or disciplinary consequences.

Austria’s highest court has joined the list.

In a remarkable judicial dressing-down, the court effectively says that the filing was so corrupted by AI hallucinations that it failed at the threshhold level of legal argumentation:

“The remainder of the submission, which is riddled with numerous misquotations (concerning, on the one hand, alleged procedural outcomes and, on the other hand, Supreme Court decisions that, for the most part, do not exist at all or, in any case, do not pertain to the stated subject matter) and was apparently prepared without professional review […] by so-called “artificial