Keywords

AI Hallucinations; AI Law; Securities and AI; Artificial Intelligence; Legal Documents; Financial Documents

Abstract

With the emergence of Artificial Intelligence, it has become recognized that hallucinations may be interwoven into documents. Hallucinations are statements that do not have a basis in fact, even though they appear to be true. My thesis will be centered on how hallucinations can be quantified in financial documents and legal documents. These two areas were chosen because they have an immeasurable effect on business. Recently, there have been several court cases in which an attorney included case citations that were hallucinations rather than being real cases. The attorney was fined by the judge. A new development might be for a judge to penalize the opposing counsel as well for not catching the hallucinations. In the financial sphere, hallucination statements in financial documents can easily harm a company’s reputation and the fallout from the inclusion of hallucinations can have drastically negative consequences.

Thesis Completion Year

2026

Thesis Completion Semester

Spring

Thesis Chair

Bast, Carol

College

College of Community Innovation and Education

Department

Legal Studies

Thesis Discipline

Legal Studies

Access Status

Open Access

Length of Campus Access

None

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