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The High Court in England and Wales is cracking down on the use of AI in legal practice, warning lawyers that they risk serious penalties for submitting fake citations generated by artificial intelligence. Judge Victoria Sharp recently ruled that generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, are demonstrably unreliable for legal research. The court stressed the importance of due diligence and cautioned lawyers to implement rigorous checks to prevent the inadvertent or intentional introduction of AI-fabricated legal precedents into court proceedings.