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Cameron Joseph

Michael Cohen accidentally gave his lawyer fake citations, court filing says

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Michael Cohen arrives at state supreme court for Trump's civil fraud trial, on 25 October 2023. Photograph: Yuki Iwamura/AP

Michael Cohen, the former attorney and fixer for ex-president Donald Trump, said in a newly unsealed court filing that he accidentally gave his lawyer fake legal citations that were made up by an artificial intelligence program.

In a sworn declaration made public on Friday, Cohen told a Manhattan judge that the sham citations had been generated by the AI program Google Bard, and had made their way into his lawyer’s filing because of a pair of misunderstandings – including his failure to realize that the information spat out by the program was not based in reality.

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