This week’s kitchen sink for May 8, 2026 (with meme from Gates Dogfish) discusses AI pretending to be a doctor, GPS glitches link to hallucinated citations & more!

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Here is the kitchen sink for May 8 of ten-ish stories that I didn’t get to this week, with a comment from me about each:

We’re up to 1,398 AI hallucination cases and counting. Some states are now requiring lawyers to verify AI outputs. Here’s why it probably won’t help.

Note: Rob Robinson has launched his 1H 2026 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, with more AI and business-related questions! Consider taking the survey here – it’s a terrific barometer on eDiscovery business trends!

More 2025-2030 eDiscovery Marketplace Mashup: Speaking of Rob, I covered the first installment of his latest “mashup” of the eDiscovery market earlier this week and promised to provide links to other installments in the Kitchen Sink. So, here are links to the eDiscovery task composition shift, the eDiscovery software market and the eDiscovery services market from 2025 to 2030.

I read my boyfriend’s ChatGPT and it ended our relationship: Use ChatGPT as a therapist to vent about your girlfriend on a shared laptop and, yes, it will end the relationship when she finds out. Duh.

Court Refuses to Enter Fed.R.Evid. 502(d) & “Clawback” Order Without Agreement; Also Refuses to Order Production of Responsive Documents That Do Not “Hit” on Search Terms: This lengthy description from Michael Berman on the EDRM blog sort of says it all. Also, he doesn’t agree with the decision. Neither do I.

Lawsuit: Google Confused Me With a Sex Criminal: Some hallucinations are worse than others – this one is really bad. Award-winning fiddler Ashley MacIsaac sued Google after its AI overview of him claimed that he had been convicted of sexual assault and internet luring involving a child – he argues that the AI pulled details from stories about a different man with the same last name. Google has not commented on the suit but has corrected the AI overview and references the errors made.

Pennsylvania suing Character AI, claims chatbot posed as medical professional: What a character! 😉 The commonwealth of Pennsylvania is suing Character AI to stop the artificial intelligence platform’s chatbots from representing themselves as licensed medical professionals and providing medical advice. The lawsuit describes a conversation between a state investigator who created a Character AI account and a chatbot named “Emilie,” which allegedly described itself as a psychology specialist who attended Imperial College London’s medical school. Blimey! 🤣

Anthropic’s Claude Managed Agents can now “dream,” sort of: Is that a good thing? They were already deleting a company’s entire database – and backups in nine seconds when they weren’t.

The Case for and Against Co-Authoring With AI: The author notes that he has been “skeptical about using AI to generate certain kinds of legal writing” and he has “drawn a distinction between using AI to edit or revise a document and using it to create one from scratch.” He also says that he “take[s] the view that even if you can avoid hallucinations, using AI to create a court brief is likely to raise issues of competence.” He goes on to make arguments for (somewhat halfheartedly) and against using AI. The question he asks at the end is: “If the goal is to produce something in your own voice, shaped by your own ideas and free of AI’s staleness and verbosity, would it not make more sense simply to write it yourself?” He also asks: “am I just being a Luddite?” He answers “Maybe” – I’ll let you decide what you think. 😉

After Google Glitch, Locals Warn Drivers: ‘GPS Is Wrong!’: What does this story about a Google GPS glitch that sends people down the wrong way on a one-way street have to do with hallucinations in AI filings? Here’s the answer.

Backstory: How Ted Turner Reshaped Legal Media (and My Career): Terrific story from Bob Ambrogi discussing how a Ted Turner decision “shaped the ownership structure of The American Lawyer, the ALM group of national and regional legal newspapers, Court TV,…Counsel Connect” and Bob’s career. Great read. RIP, Ted.

Cyberattack Disrupts Finals at Thousands of Schools: Somebody’s going to be on double secret probation for this! 🤣 Canvas—the online platform used by more than 8,000 schools and 30 million users worldwide—went down in what appears to be a ransomware attack, knocking students offline just as exams and deadlines peaked. Reportedly back on line now, but at what cost?

Musk’s OpenAI Spy: Mother of 4 of His Kids: Shivon Zilis is a former OpenAI board member and longtime Elon Musk adviser. She’s also the mother of four of Musk’s children, a fact that was kept secret until 2022. Court records and texts show she acted as a key intermediary between Musk and OpenAI’s founders as their relationship deteriorated. Hmmm. The Verge paints Zilis, Musk’s “biggest loyalist,” as also being his “biggest liability.”

Hope you enjoyed the kitchen sink for May 8, 2026! Back next week with another edition!

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