A federal appeals court may soon require lawyers to certify that any filing prepared with generative AI was reviewed by a human before it hit the docket.
The Tenth Circuit proposed the rule after courts continued seeing AI-generated filings containing fabricated or inaccurate citations.
If adopted, it would be the first rule of its kind among the federal appeals courts.
And the consequences could be significant: monetary sanctions, disciplinary referrals, dismissed appeals, or filings being struck.
For lawyers, the message is getting harder to miss:
Use AI if you want. You still own every word it produces.
-The Legal Brief