Lawyer Cites Fake AI-Generated Legal Cases in Motion, Calls it An Honest Mistake
• Michael Cohen admitted he inadvertently cited fake legal cases generated by AI in a motion to end his supervised release early • The fake citations were created by Google's Bard AI and Cohen thought it was a "supercharged search engine" • Cohen said his lawyer, David Schwartz, put the fake cases into the filing "wholesale without even confirming they existed" • Cohen called it an "honest mistake" and said he "deeply regrets any problems" the filing caused • In an unrelated case, two other lawyers were fined $5,000 earlier this month for citing fake AI-generated cases