Home Office used 'AI hallucinated' information to refuse asylum claim, judge
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- A senior judge accused the UK Home Office of using AI-generated false information to reject an asylum claim from a Moroccan woman fleeing forced marriage and violence.
- The Home Office cited a non-existent country policy information note (CPIN) as evidence that Morocco was safe, but the document was never found and another judge deemed it likely an AI hallucination.
- The Home Office later provided an unpublished internal guidance (CIN) that actually highlighted risks for women in Morocco, including child marriage and lack of marital rape laws.
- The judge compared relying on the non-existent document to using bogus evidence and called it a procedural irregularity, while the Home Office defended its asylum system as under constant review.