This is just the dressing down part. The formal sanctions come after.

What's really amazing to me is that the city's lawyer didn't catch and call them out. That's also showing a lack of professionalism and ethics because it is clear that they did not read and consider the opposing party's arguments.

Congress isn't going to do shit.

Don’t make mistakes! This is for my really important lawyer job and I could get in trouble!

Socrates was famously called the 'gadfly' because he would pester elites by challenging their supposed wisdom. People that would be highly knowledgeable craftsman, financiers, politicians, etc. would then over estimate their knowledge outside of their realm of expertise and claim to be wise in all things. They would know just enough to sound knowledgeable, but really know very little about what they were talking about (related to the Dunning-Kreuger effect). The takeaway of Socrates' gadfly work is that sometimes wisdom is acknowledging when you do not know something.

AI can have a lot of "knowledge" (it doesn't actually know anything itself, but rather has pattern training and access to data references). But what it doesn't have.... like at all... is wisdom. It doesn't understand, literally, anything at all. It might have some guard rails up to limit is hallucinations. It might even say, sometimes, that it doesn't know. But it is just as happy to ramble on with pure and complete nonsense that is all just a stream of patterns training and probabilistic guesswork. If it has a nugget of data or even an entire library related to your prompt, it will present it to you. But it can 100% just fill any gaps or take the response into tangents that are nothing but guess-the-next-word, probability, looks-good-to-me word salad that can contain several "facts" that are nothing but random word associations from its training with no reference for its basis.

It is a glorified autocorrect. You cannot trust its information blindly, and using it as a tool in this way, especially while staking your fucking law career on it, is goddamned moronic.

That's what happens when you train llm models on reddit.

To be fair, mild confusion and concern is the judicial equivalent. Even the diehard maga judges still behave with decorum, even if their ultimate judgments are unhinged.

There's a common and expected way to do lawyering. If a judge "expresses concern" towards a lawyer, that's a big sign that you dun fucked up.

SLAMMED!

Suspension of law license, hefty fines, and disbarment would all be far better than simply auto-losing a case. If anything, the people who hired said attorneys should be able to sue for compensation of legal fees and any other monetary losses due to their attorney’s gross negligence.

And, said attorneys should be legally required to take out at minimum a half page newspaper article, radio ad space, and tv ad space explaining what happened and why.

that isn't far enough