Michael Cohen gave lawyer fraudulent case citations generated by AI
- Michael Cohen unknowingly submitted fake AI-generated legal case citations to his lawyer, which were then used in a court motion on his behalf.
- Cohen blames his lawyer for not verifying the citations before submitting them to the judge, calling it an "honest mistake."
- The judge discovered the fake citations and questioned Cohen's role in drafting the motion. Cohen claims he found the citations through Google Bard and was unaware they could be generated by AI.
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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has admitted in court that he generated false information with artificial intelligence and passed it on to his lawyer. The 57-year-old used the Google chatbot Bard to find evidence of a lawsuit in New York that had come up with the software. This is according to newly published federal court documents in Manhattan, in which Cohen justifies his conduct. Cohen told the court in an affidavit released Friday that he…
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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen ‘mistakenly’ gave fake AI-generated case citations to his attorney
Michael Cohen, the former fixer and lawyer for ex-US president Donald Trump, said on Friday (Dec 29) that he mistakenly gave his attorney David Schwartz fake case citations generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) program that made their way into an official court filing, the news agency Reuters reported. Cohen said in a sworn declaration in a federal court in Manhattan that he did not realise that the citations by Google's AI chatbot Bard we
Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s onetime personal lawyer and fixer, says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge.
Cohen sent AI-generated fake cases to attorney
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer and fixer, said he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge.
Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney
Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer and fixer says he passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge.
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