Trump's former lawyer blames AI for fake citations in legal documents

Michael Cohen admitted to thinking that AI chatbot Google Bard was a more precise “supercharged search engine” than other generative AI services.

Michael Cohen, a former lawyer of Donald Trump confessed to mistakenly giving his attorney incorrect case citations created by the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Google Bard.

In a recent court filing, Michael Cohen, who is set to be a witness against Trump in his upcoming criminal trials, confesses to sending Google Bard-generated legal citations to his lawyer, David Schwartz, in support of his case.

However, it was argued that Cohen is not an active legal professional, and was only passing on the information to his attorney, suggesting the information should have been reviewed before being included in official court documents.

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