[OliverJones]

And every time this happens from now on, the fine should be doubled. When the fine gets too high for the lazy lawyer to pay, they may instead relinquish their bar admission (lose their license to practice law) for five years.

Lawyers admitted to the bar aren't innocents. They're "officers of the court", meaning the legal system relies on them to avoid BS in their citation of other cases and of statutes and laws. It's never been acceptable for a lawyer to sign off on something without reading it and making sure it's right.

What if registered professional civil engineers started asking generative AI for sewer-system or bridge designs and then didn't inspect them before approving them and handing them off to the guys with dozers and cement trucks? Not only would people fall into rivers, but the rivers would be polluted.

The real world consequences are similarly serious when lawyers make stuff up, or let their interns or word-processing software make stuff up.