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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Oliver O'Connell

Michael Cohen used AI tool to generate bogus cases in court filing

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Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s one-time lawyer and “fixer” used Google Bard, the artificial intelligence program, to provide his lawyer with fictitious legal citations, according to newly unsealed court papers.

The fake citations were then included in a motion filed with a Manhattan federal judge to argue for an early end to Cohen’s court supervision having been released from prison for campaign finance violation charges that he pleaded guilty to in 2018.

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