Why lawyers hallucinate?

https://www.bespacific.com/teaching-legal-research-in-the-generative-ai-era-parts-1-2/

Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era – Parts 1 & 2

Via LLRX – Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 1) and Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 2) Four Part Series by Tanya Thomas [forthcoming] – Part 1 examines how we’re training a generation of lawyers who rarely engage with the raw materials of their profession, and are increasingly consuming only processed, pre-digested, AI-synthesized versions like the mechanically separated chicken parts that go into chicken nuggets.  Part 2 highlights how research used to encompass finding sources, evaluating them, synthesizing insights across multiple authorities, and reaching conclusions based on that synthesis. Now however, it means asking questions and accepting answers. Students have become consumers of information rather than investigators of it. They don’t develop the iterative thinking that characterizes skilled research—trying a search, evaluating results, refining the query, following unexpected leads, discovering connections, recognizing gaps, circling back to fill them. They simply ask and receive.