Fat Joe Says Accuser’s Attorney Used AI to Draft Motions Rife with ‘Hallucinations’

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Fat Joe claims his accuser’s attorney used AI to write legal briefs citing “fictional” cases in the extortion lawsuit against him.

Rapper Fat Joe is accusing the attorney for Terrance “T.A.” Dixon, his former hypeman—whom he sued earlier this year with allegations of extortion—of using artificial intelligence to write legal briefs in their continued courtroom battle. These, he claims, cite “hallucinations” of legal cases that “simply don’t exist.”

Joe, whose real name is Joseph Cartagena, sued Dixon earlier this year with claims that he was making “wholly fabricated, grotesque, and scandalous allegations.” Dixon counter-sued, with shocking allegations of Joe’s history of sex with minors.

But in a filing on Friday, Joe accuses Dixon’s lawyer Tyrone Blackburn of using an AI chatbot to do his paralegal work for him. This led to “at least ten instances in the motion where defendants cite […] ‘hallucinated’ case citations, […] the result of Blackburn’s irresponsible reliance on artificial intelligence generated content.”

Interestingly, this isn’t the first time Blackburn has faced similar accusations. In June, a federal judge threatened sanctions after Blackburn filed a motion containing “nonexistent quotations” and other AI-generated mistakes. The attorney then did so again in a brief defending his conduct, which the court deemed “a clear ethical violation of the highest order.”

Blackburn, following his dismissal from that case, issued an apology for his antics. In August, he said he had taken new training courses on AI and ethics. “I have done everything in my power to remediate the mistake, educate myself, and protect the integrity of my practice.”

But it seems that training was all for naught. In Joe’s filing on Friday, his lawyers assert the exact same issues in their case that saw Blackburn dismissed from the previous case.

“The motion is, unfortunately, just the latest example of Blackburn’s serial disregard of his ethical obligations,” they wrote. “In addition to disregarding Blackburn’s fictional authorities, the Court should impose harsh sanctions for this repeat conduct.”

Concerningly, like many other jobs in 2025, lawyers are increasingly utilizing AI to cut corners in their work, including researching cases to support their arguments—something traditionally left to the diligence of paralegals. But AI models are known to generate “false facts,” known as “hallucinations.” Moreover, lawyers are required by a strong code of ethics to personally certify anything they file in court. According to the American Bar Association, even unintentional mistakes would constitute a violation of those requirements.

In 2023, Pras Michel, the convicted Fugees rapper, accused his lawyer of relying on AI to help craft his closing arguments, and thus botching the case. This spring, an attorney from the firm Latham & Watkins issued an apology for the use of an AI model that created a fake footnote for a real source. Ironically, that came in a brief filed on behalf of AI firm Anthropic in its ongoing legal battle with music publishers.

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