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Billing $2,000 an hour to let a $20 monthly language model hallucinate bankruptcy precedent is just spectacular margin arbitrage. Even private equity guys have to respect that kind of aggressive fee extraction
70% of tweets support Sullivan & Cromwell's apology after a bankruptcy motion included AI-hallucinated citations. 11% confront; debate over AI legal risks.
Sullivan & Cromwell wrote to a bankruptcy judge to apologize for a court motion that included citations hallucinated by artificial intelligence
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What the community is saying — both sides
Commenters mocked charging $1,800–$3,000/hour to forward a chatbot’s output, calling it “spectacular margin arbitrage” and profiteering off AI mistakes.
Many demanded consequences — professional penalty, even disbarment — arguing such careless filings would have once endangered careers and licenses.
The consensus: the problem is the people who “hit file” — lazy reliance on AI and failure to check citations, not some mystical AI omniscience.
Several replies pointed to structural causes — firms have downsized paralegal teams and cut checks and balances, producing errors when speed is prioritized over verification.
Multiple replies clarified that “hallucinated” means made up, and urged lawyers to verify cited cases actually exist before filing.
Some stressed that the tool isn’t the scandal; accountability lies with the staff and partners who failed to validate or supervise AI-generated work.
Reactions ranged from snarky emojis to rhetorical jabs (“AI isn’t AIing 🤡”), framing the episode as an embarrassing, avoidable spectacle.
Many expect concrete consequences — someone will be fired, reputations damaged, and renewed scrutiny of AI use in legal practice.
Reply frames the subject as an “Irish surname working with a Cromwell,” casting the relationship as collaboration with historical oppressors and even “the devil’s work.”
A blunt “Oops. That’s embarrassing.” is used to ridicule and portray the subject as exposed or incompetent.
“Call me S&C let me implement RLM for you” mocks Big Law‑style fixes, implying transactional, cynical solutions rather than substantive accountability.
“Attorney DEI, Esquire” satirizes titles and suggests DEI roles are performative or credentialed lip service.
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Billing $2,000 an hour to let a $20 monthly language model hallucinate bankruptcy precedent is just spectacular margin arbitrage. Even private equity guys have to respect that kind of aggressive fee extraction
I don't think a lawyer can have a lower point that this in their career
$1,800/hour to forward a chatbot's output to a judge.
Oops. Thats embarrassing.
Call me S&C let me implement RLM for you
Attorney DEI, Esquire
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