{"slug": "judges-warn-that-ai-generated-lawslop-is-getting-so-bad-its-threatening-courts", "title": "Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts’ Ability to Function", "summary": "A three-judge panel of Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal issued an opinion last week excoriating family attorney Jaclyn Soroka for filings the judges called \"AI slop,\" finding her motion \"legally insufficient, frivolous, and untimely\" and warning she could be referred to the Florida bar for discipline. The opinion states that AI-generated \"frivolous, scattershot arguments\" cause \"delay, annoyance, and expense\" and that \"abusive AI filing clogs dockets and undermines the administration of justice.\" Soroka denied using AI to generate court filings in an interview with Law.com.", "body_md": "AI doesn’t need superintelligence to bring America’s judicial system to its knees.\n\nThe proliferation of AI-generated slop paraded as legitimate legal documentation is now so bad that Florida’s second-highest appellate is sounding the alarm.\n\nIn [an opinion](https://assets.alm.com/75/ff/160ee91d45418b20e886568b6d7c/opinion-2026-2262.pdf) issued last week, a panel of three judges for Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal excoriated an attorney whose filings carried the unmistakable imprint of — in the judges’ words — “AI slop.”\n\nThat assessment, first reported [by *Reuters*](https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/appeals-court-warns-about-ai-slop-filings-weighs-punishing-lawyer-2026-09-17/), came along with a notice that the offending attorney might be referred to the Florida bar for discipline, as well as a warning that the kinds of “frivolous, scattershot arguments” generated by AI are causing serious problems for courts’ ability to process cases.\n\n“Pro se litigants and lawyers can easily abuse AI to crank out extensive and confounding documents that cause delay, annoyance, and expense to the other side,” the opinion states. “Busy courts can drown in a flood of filings that are difficult to navigate. Abusive AI filing clogs dockets and undermines the administration of justice. Courts expect more from an attorney.”\n\nAs for the attorney in question, the district court found family attorney Jaclyn Soroka had filed a motion which was “legally insufficient, frivolous, and untimely.”\n\n“An AI supercomputer would struggle to find meaning in some of the prose used in this case,” the judges roared. “Counsel’s arguments need to be comprehensible to human readers — the courts, opposing counsel, and the litigants.”\n\nIn an interview [with *Law.com*](https://www.law.com/dailybusinessreview/2026/09/18/rise-in-ai-slop-threatens-court-functionand-judges-are-frustrated/), Soroka denied using any AI to produce legal documents, explaining that “in my practice of law, in all matters, I do not use artificial intelligence to generate court filings.”\n\n**More on AI:** [OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits](https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-consumer-harm-wrongful-death-lawsuits)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/judges-warn-that-ai-generated-lawslop-is-getting-so-bad-its-threatening-courts", "canonical_source": "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/judges-florida-court-warn-ai-law-slop-threatening-judicial", "published_at": "2026-09-25 18:51:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-25 19:00:48.036801+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeal", "Jaclyn Soroka", "Florida bar", "Reuters", "Law.com"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/judges-warn-that-ai-generated-lawslop-is-getting-so-bad-its-threatening-courts", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/judges-warn-that-ai-generated-lawslop-is-getting-so-bad-its-threatening-courts.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/judges-warn-that-ai-generated-lawslop-is-getting-so-bad-its-threatening-courts.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/judges-warn-that-ai-generated-lawslop-is-getting-so-bad-its-threatening-courts.jsonld"}}