"Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon."
"Frustrated by fake citations and flowery prose packed with "out-of-left-field" references to ancient libraries and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, a New York federal judge took the rare step of terminating a case this week due to a lawyer's repeated misuse of AI when drafting filings."
"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."
A federal judge in New York terminated a case and imposed extraordinary sanctions after an attorney repeatedly submitted filings containing fabricated citations and other AI-driven errors. Several filings exhibited grammatical mistakes and run-on sentences, while one filing stood out for conspicuously florid prose that quoted Ray Bradbury and used gardening metaphors. The filings also invoked a Bible passage acknowledging a professional breach. The court found repeated failures to correct false citations despite requests and concluded that misuse of AI produced unreliable legal documents warranting severe sanctioning, including case termination.
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