Security & ethics of legal AI
Avoiding fabricated citations: a governance approach
Sanctions for AI-fabricated citations are now a recurring news item. The fix is architectural, not a disclaimer.
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Fabricated citations happen when a model is asked to recall authority from its training rather than verify it against a real corpus. The fix is to make verification deterministic and to run it before any AI inference touches the question.
EdgeCite extracts citations and validates them against your firm's curated case library by deterministic lookup. The baseline is provable; AI is used only for fuzzy or semantic resolution on top of a verified foundation, and anything needing human judgment routes to a review queue.
The result is a cite-check report with verification status you can hand to a partner — not a confident paragraph you have to trust.
See how this works in EdgeLex.