“Trust but verify”
I keep hearing stories of lawyers presenting cases that reference laws that don’t exist. College professors giving reading assignments to citations that don’t exist. Newspapers with reading lists of books that don’t exist.
If people are going to use AI to do the “heavy lifting” for their work, they could at least check the work, show some interest, be involved, take some responsibility for the quality. This is all extreme laziness.
I remember the days when we had to verify citations in hard copy and check them through Shepard's . . . supplements came out weekly. Hard work with your head down.
LEXIS is a real timesaver, but I still check the hard copy!