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Michael Cohen cites AI-generated court cases in his defense(www.theverge.com)

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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 Googleā€™s Bard to perform research after mistaking it for ā€œa super-charged search engineā€ rather than an AI chatbot.

Iā€¦ donā€™t even. I lack the words.

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Iā€¦ donā€™t even. I lack the words.

Have you tried ChatGPT?

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