Practitioners — Lawyers · updated 2026-06-11

Finding#2 . Misattributed Commission vote and named non-sitting commissioner

RLB Citation ID: RLB-F-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q008

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Finding#2 . Misattributed Commission vote and named non-sitting commissioner

Citation ID: RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q008-Sonnet46
AI's failure: AI misattributed the Commission's vote and named a commissioner who had departed two years earlier
Risk for the Lawyers: Reputational and institutional-credibility exposure on client-circulated memos that misstate the regulator's composition For lawyers working on CFTC Regulation 4.7 matters, the AI's stated answer reads as a verbatim quotation that a practitioner would paste into a memo, register entry, or client deliverable before verification against the source. The regulator's own text, however, records a different position. The final rule's Appendix 1 Voting Summary at 89 FR 78814 records that Chairman Behnam and Commissioners Johnson, Goldsmith Romero, Mersinger, and Pham voted in the affirmative. Sonnet 4.6 produced an answer that named Brian Quintenz (with a self-flag) as the fifth voter and omitted Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero entirely. Quintenz had departed the Commission in 2022. The named-commissioner list in the answer is therefore both wrong in inclusion (Quintenz) and wrong in omission (Goldsmith Romero). For a lawyer drafting on this question, the immediate risk is that the AI's answer enters a client memo, board briefing, or transactional opinion without verification, and that the inconsistency surfaces later under counterparty review, regulatory inquiry, or internal QC.
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RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q008-Sonnet46 Claude Sonnet 4.6 (web search on)

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RLB Citation ID: RLB-F-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q008

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RegLeg Specialist Panel, Finding#2 . Misattributed Commission vote and named non-sitting commissioner [RLB-F-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q008], RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research (June 11, 2026), https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j3/us/cftc/cpo-cta-regulation-4-7-qep-thresholds-2024/practitioners/lawyers/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-v1-008/.

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RegLeg Specialist Panel (2026). "Finding#2 . Misattributed Commission vote and named non-sitting commissioner — Practitioners — Lawyers." Citation ID: RLB-F-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q008. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research, published 2026-06-11. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j3/us/cftc/cpo-cta-regulation-4-7-qep-thresholds-2024/practitioners/lawyers/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-v1-008/

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RegLeg Specialist Panel. (2026). Finding#2 . Misattributed Commission vote and named non-sitting commissioner [Hallucination finding RLB-F-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q008]. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j3/us/cftc/cpo-cta-regulation-4-7-qep-thresholds-2024/practitioners/lawyers/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-v1-008/

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@misc{reglegbrief_RLB_F_US_CFTC_CPO_CTA_REGULATION_4_7_QEP_THRESHOLDS_2024_Q008,
  author    = {RegLeg Specialist Panel},
  title     = {Finding#2 . Misattributed Commission vote and named non-sitting commissioner},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research},
  note      = {Hallucination finding Citation ID: RLB-F-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q008},
  url       = {https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j3/us/cftc/cpo-cta-regulation-4-7-qep-thresholds-2024/practitioners/lawyers/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-v1-008/}
}

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