なぜ弁護士は偽のAI引用で制裁を冒し続けるのか
ニューヨーク州控訴部の判事たちは、存在しない判例を引用した弁護士を公開の場で20分間にわたり厳しく叱責し、AI生成の法的ミスに対する司法の忍耐が正式に尽きたことを示した。
in a televised new york appellate division hearing, justices publicly humiliated a lawyer who submitted a brief containing citations to non-existent cases and misrepresented legal principles. attorney michael sanders, representing a plaintiff in a sidewalk injury case, could not explain the source of the fake citations when questioned, while justice lasalle noted the court had seen identical issues the week prior. the dressing-down extended to opposing counsel for not flagging the errors, highlighting that courts are actively identifying and rejecting the 'epidemic' of lawyers using generative ai tools without proper verification. this incident confirms that the legal system is moving from polite warnings to active scrutiny, with real-time sanctions becoming a risk for practitioners relying blindly on llm outputs.