Two New Large Libel Models Lawsuits, Though Alleging Mischaracterization Rather Than Outright Hallucination

Free Speech Two New Large Libel Models Lawsuits, Though Alleging Mischaracterization Rather Than Outright Hallucination They are, by my count, the 8th and 9th such claims filed in U.S. courts. Eugene Volokh | 6.15.2026 8:01 AM These closely related lawsuits are different, at least in degree, from previous lawsuits over allegedly defamatory AI output: Rather than alleging thoroughgoing hallucination, or (as in Battle v. Microsoft) the merging of two unrelated documents about similarly named people, they involve claims that AI output summarizing published documents overstates the allegations in those documents—a sort of claim that's pretty common in normal libel litigation against newspapers. 1.

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