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.

I… don’t even. I lack the words.

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And this is the guy they want testifying about 45?

‘my honor, I object on the grounds that the prosecution witness is incompetent’.

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Only so much you can do when you have to source your information from the dickheads that trump surrounded himself with.

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Because it’s devastating to my case!

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“then he is on equal footing with the defense, objection overruled”

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