AI hallucinations don't seem to going away anytime soon,. Using actual court orders and filings to 1) expose students to how courts are treating AI-generated errors and 2) give students experience in scanning, finding and correcting such errors, from real cases, gives weight to our cautionary tales about how to use this technology ethically and effectively. The goal is to show students the real-life stakes of using GenAI tools carelessly, especially as judges start to lose patience with practitioners over such errors. Fortunately and unfortunately, every circuit now has a wealth of potential material to use as class readings as well as exercises in spotting not only the errors themselves but how including these errors implicate the Rules of Professional Conduct for attorney across all jurisdictions. I will demonstrate using past assignment from the Advanced Legal Research class I co-teach at UCLA Law.

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