UK: a Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor cited an imaginary case to the High Court after an AI search, ‘a serious failure’
Partly confirmed
Status
- Claim
Partly confirmed
- Our reporting
- Medium confidence
- Importance
- 2 of 5
- Last verified
- 8 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra187 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5126 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon217 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7156 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 126 days before it.
Key facts
- Written from the Guardian headline; article not readable for us (tool, judge and case unverified)
Sources
1 source from 1 site. Numbers match the chips in the text.
1 source: 1 press
Press
- The Guardian: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to High Court after AI searchtheguardian.com, press
Changes
- Filed