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

submitted 10 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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 Google’s Bard to perform research after mistaking it for “a super-charged search engine” rather than an AI chatbot.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Michael Cohen was working for Trump precisely because he couldn't get a proper lawyer job elsewhere. Good lawyers will steer clear of a client that will ask them to commit crimes for them.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think this is fairly reductive. I work in a related industry. Often it's the best lawyers working for the shadier clients, for obvious reasons.

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

That being said, the best lawyers avoid clients who have a bad habit of not paying.