변호사들이 가짜 AI 인용으로 제재 위험을 계속 감수하는 이유
뉴욕 항소심 재판부 판사들은 존재하지 않는 판례를 인용한 변호사를 공개적으로 20분 동안 호되게 질타했으며, 이는 AI가 생성한 법률 오류에 대한 사법부의 인내가 공식적으로 바닥났음을 시사한다.
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.