Michael Cohen cites AI-generated court cases in his defense

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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen accidentally cited fake court cases generated by AI

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/29/24019067/michael-cohen-former-trump-lawyer-google-bard-ai

Cohen says he hasn’t “kept up with emerging trends.”

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen accidentally cited fake court cases generated by AI

Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to citing fake, AI-generated court cases in a legal document that wound up in front of a federal judge, as reported earlier by The New York Times. A filing unsealed on Friday says Cohen used Google’s Bard to perform research after mistaking it for “a super-charged search engine” rather than an AI chatbot.

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