A lawyer used ChatGPT to generate briefs that included completely made-up witnesses and testimony while representing a man accused of shooting his wife. When he was caught by the judges, the lawyer blamed it on his own “stupidity.” “It's little comfort to know that my stupidity is what brings us together this afternoon,” New Mexico attorney Stephen D. Aarons said in a hearing last month before five judges. He “assumed” ChatGPT would generate a “bulletproof summary of proceedings.”
The chance of any lawyer ever getting disbarred for using AI abuse is probably zero. That encourages lazy or stupid or incompetent lawyers to use AI. From their perspective - why not use it? You might not get caught. And if you do - you just mention your "stupidity". It also means such lawyers can make shit up and still rely on the ez to use stupidity defense. "Your honor - the error was due to AI..."