Think about the last time you scrolled through your social media feed and paused—not because a post was funny or beautiful, but because something felt off. A headline that seemed too outrageous to be true. A video with no date, no place, no clear source. A claim that made your stomach tighten, especially with elections on the horizon. You are not imagining things. In the lead-up to any election, the information landscape becomes a battlefield. Rumors, half-truths, manipulated images, and outright lies travel faster than facts, often wrapped in slick graphics and designed to trigger emotion. That is exactly why…

In the quiet, often tradition-bound world of South Korean courtrooms, where the weight of a single precedent can decide the fate of a family, a business, or a life, a new and unsettling presence has taken root. It is not a person, not a dramatic piece of evidence, but something far more subtle and potentially corrosive: artificial intelligence-generated citations that look real but are entirely made up. According to a recent survey conducted by South Korea’s Supreme Court, approximately 80 percent of judges handling civil, family, and administrative cases said they have encountered references in court proceedings to false or…