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A California Court of Appeal sanctioned an attorney $1,500 and forwarded its opinion to the State Bar after his brief quoted cases that do not exist, quotations generated by AI and never verified. The lawyer had an AI policy requiring human review. The court held the policy itself was not enough, because it never put a competent person on the …
If your business relies on generative AI to produce work that gets filed, sent, or signed under your name, a California appellate court just answered the question that matters: when the output is wrong, who pays? Not the software. Not the contractor who ran it. You. That’s the lesson of Quinteros v. Harbor Distributing, LLC (Cal. Ct. App., 1st Dist., …