Citation Faithfulness: A Proposed Standard for Legal AI

<p>When legal AI tools hit the news cycle, the headline question is usually “can it draft a complaint?” A safer question for builders and buyers is whether the system leaves a

<p>Every legal-AI product on the market in 2026 will, at some point, produce a hallucination. This is not a controversial claim — it's the well-documented nature of large language

<h2> Why AI systems merge official communications with third-party summaries when provenance signals are not structurally preserved </h2> <p>“Why does AI say the city issued a

<p>Legal AI is having its GPT-3 moment. The technology is good enough to be useful, every founder is shipping, and the gap between the marketing demos and the production systems

<p>AI systems retrieve and assemble information by decomposing content into discrete elements—statements, entities, and metadata—then recombining those elements into synthesized