The tabling is not a pause — it is a structural handoff. By deferring to local court discretion, the Advisory Committee has effectively ratified the three-way split already in motion. Attorneys filing AI-assisted briefs now face with no appellate authority to harmonize them. The specific concern that blocked consensus — that new authentication rules would give bad-faith litigants a ready-made 'deepfake defense' — is a real institutional fear, but declining to act does not eliminate that risk; it just leaves each judge to manage…