The Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee in 2022. Photo: Urbantallahassee / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped).

A Florida judge recently reviewed a case in which one defendant was filing 20 or 30 lengthy documents a day. Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Lisa Munyon told The Florida Bar that AI-assisted filings are getting dramatically longer. She wants page limits on AI-generated documents, alongside limits on the number filed. Only a small minority of people representing themselves abuse the system, she said.

Her account comes as courts report more paperwork and staffing shortages. In an August survey of 116 judges and other court professionals by the National Center for State Courts and Thomson Reuters Institute, almost two-thirds reported seeing more AI-written filings from people without lawyers. Fifty-nine percent reported staffing shortages during the previous year.

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