Michael Cohen cites AI-generated court cases in his defense
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.”
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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