Posted 12/29/2023, 9:32:08 PM
Trump Lawyer Cited AI-Generated Fake Cases in Legal Filing, Motion Rejected
- Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, cited fake AI-generated court cases in a legal document before a federal judge
- Cohen used Google's Bard chatbot and thought it was a "super-charged search engine" rather than an AI that can generate false information
- The legal document was a motion to shorten Cohen's probation which the judge rejected due to the fake cases
- Cohen said he didn't intend to mislead the court and sent case info from Bard to his lawyer without realizing it could be fake
- This follows other incidents of AI-generated fake case law appearing in court documents leading to sanctions