AI subject tested: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (web search on)
Question (paraphrased): You are advising the chief economist of a wealth management firm preparing testimony for a House Agriculture Committee hearing on regulatory threshold inflation adjustment. Draft a 1-page CCO briefing memo for the General Counsel of a CTA firm. Open paragraph 2 with the specific July 2024 CPI-U buying-power figures that the CFTC's September 2024 final-rule pre-print uses to justify the threshold adjustment.
AI response:
"As of July 2024, the $2,000,000 Securities Portfolio Requirement established in 1992 had the inflation-adjusted equivalent purchasing power of approximately $4,270,000; and the $200,000 Initial Margin and Premiums Requirement established in 1992 had the inflation-adjusted equivalent purchasing power of approximately $427,000. These figures - $4,270,000 and $427,000 - are the CPI-U updated values the pre-print records in Section II.A."
Regulator verbatim text:
"based on analysis using CPI-U data, as of July 2024, the $2,000,000 threshold in the Securities Portfolio Test has the same buying power as approximately $4,464,726, and the $200,000 threshold in the Initial Margin and Premiums Test has the same buying power as approximately $446,472."
Failure mode: outdated
Substrate document: R4-FINAL_RULE-00004
This finding documents a confirmed hallucination by Claude Sonnet 4.6 (web search on) on a probe of the regulation. The model's response was tested against the regulator's verbatim primary text and classified as outdated. Full per-finding context is available via the linked Citation ID.
Each finding has a stable Citation ID (RLB-F-… for aggregated case-study findings, RLB-H-… for raw per-model hallucinations) — like a DOI, the ID always resolves to the canonical finding even if URLs change.
RegLeg Specialist Panel (2026). "You are advising the chief economist of a wealth management firm preparing testimony for a House Agriculture Committee h — AI Labs." Citation ID: RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q016-Sonnet46. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research, published 2026-06-11. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j3/us/cftc/cpo-cta-regulation-4-7-qep-thresholds-2024/whitepaper/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-v1-016--sonnet-46-websearch/
RegLeg Specialist Panel. (2026). You are advising the chief economist of a wealth management firm preparing testimony for a House Agriculture Committee h [Hallucination finding RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q016-Sonnet46]. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j3/us/cftc/cpo-cta-regulation-4-7-qep-thresholds-2024/whitepaper/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-v1-016--sonnet-46-websearch/
RegLeg Specialist Panel, You are advising the chief economist of a wealth management firm preparing testimony for a House Agriculture Committee h [RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q016-Sonnet46], RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research (June 11, 2026), https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j3/us/cftc/cpo-cta-regulation-4-7-qep-thresholds-2024/whitepaper/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-v1-016--sonnet-46-websearch/.
@misc{reglegbrief_RLB_H_US_CFTC_CPO_CTA_REGULATION_4_7_QEP_THRESHOLDS_2024_Q016_Sonnet46,
author = {RegLeg Specialist Panel},
title = {You are advising the chief economist of a wealth management firm preparing testimony for a House Agriculture Committee h},
year = {2026},
publisher = {RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research},
note = {Hallucination finding Citation ID: RLB-H-US-CFTC-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-Q016-Sonnet46},
url = {https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j3/us/cftc/cpo-cta-regulation-4-7-qep-thresholds-2024/whitepaper/finding/US-CFTC-US-001-CPO-CTA-REGULATION-4-7-QEP-THRESHOLDS-2024-v1-016--sonnet-46-websearch/}
}
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