Comment Re:Perfectly acceptable. (Score 1) 37
What this guy tried, is perfectly acceptable. Itâ(TM)s also acceptable for the court to catch it and require the guy to submit hardcopy. If this forces a judge to think twice about feeding court cases into claude and then basing their judgement on the analysis, so much the better.
While there have been cases where lawyers have submitted AI generated content, and I think at least one instance a judge was caught using AI in their opinions, it's not common, and courts using AI to judge cases isn't a thing (and hopefully will never be a thing).
I mean, it's possible a judge might use AI to confirm a few details - a case with thousands of pages of submissions, evidence and filings can certainly be a good case to have AI help summarize or to help search through the documentation, it can't really be a substitute for human judgement.
While the effort would get me a "nice try" from me, I don't see where the sanction is unfair. It'll be like trying to slip a $100 bill with your filing to the judge. And I'm sure the judge didn't like the implication that his court is run with AI. Courts may not have a good reputation, but at least for now it's because of the judges and not the institution itself.