AI doesn’t need superintelligence to bring America’s judicial system to its knees.
The proliferation of AI-generated slop paraded as legitimate legal documentation is now so bad that Florida’s second-highest appellate is sounding the alarm.
In an opinion issued last week, a panel of three judges for Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal excoriated an attorney whose filings carried the unmistakable imprint of — in the judges’ words — “AI slop.”
That assessment, first reported by Reuters, came along with a notice that the offending attorney might be referred to the Florida bar for discipline, as well as a warning that the kinds of “frivolous, scattershot arguments” generated by AI are causing serious problems for courts’ ability to process cases.
