Florida appeals court refers lawyer for possible discipline over 'AI slop'
A Florida state appeals court has referred a lawyer to the Florida Bar for possible discipline over filings that it referred to as “AI slop.”
In September, Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal said it suspected that Jaclyn Soroka submitted filings in a divorce case that contained components generated by artificial intelligence.
“Counsel’s lengthy and unfocused filings contain gibberish and abuse the litigation process in different ways—including by churning out convoluted, false and frivolous arguments,” the court said at the time.
In an order on Wednesday, Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal rejected Soroka’s arguments that she should not be sanctioned for frivolous filing, noting that her response to the court “misses the point.”
“The response does not deny using AI but evades the issue and attempts to defend the frivolous arguments discussed in our prior opinion,” the court said.
Soroka has said she did not use AI to draft her filings. In her response to the court, she said that “my citations are real, my cases exist and my language is confident because the record supports it.” After reinspecting about 237 citations, Soroka found only two “human errors,” which she said were made because of time pressures.
Reuters has additional reporting.
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