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Cohen admits using AI-generated legal citations

Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer, says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge.

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  1. Minneapolis Star Tribune

    Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney (opens Minneapolis Star Tribune)

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    Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer and fixer, says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge.

  2. Insider

    Michael Cohen used Google's AI to research legal cases to cite in his appeal. The AI hallucinated them. (opens Insider)

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    In a newly released court filing, Michael Cohen admitted to using Google Bard to research court cases, without realizing the chatbot made them up.

  3. Fox News

    Michael Cohen admits to inadvertently citing fake cases generated by AI in legal motion (opens Fox News)

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    Michael Cohen admitted in a sworn declaration released Friday that he accidentally cited phony legal documents to bolster his case to end his supervised release early.

  4. Newsweek

    Attorney blames Michael Cohen for fake cases in court filing (opens Newsweek)

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    Cohen, the former fixer for Donald Trump, is being blamed for citing non-existent legal cases, according to court documents.

  5. The Guardian

    Michael Cohen accidentally gave his lawyer fake citations, court filing says (opens The Guardian)

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    Former Trump lawyer says he used AI program Google Bard and blames his lawyer for not fact-checking him

  6. Forbes

    Ex-Trump ‘Fixer’ Michael Cohen Admits He Accidentally Used Google Bard To Put Fake Cases Into Legal Filing (opens Forbes)

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    “Mr. Cohen is not a practicing attorney and has no concept of the risks of using AI services for legal research,” his attorney argued.

  7. Fortune

    Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen admits sending fake legal cases generated by AI to his attorney, who then submitted them in court (opens Fortune)

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    He said he didn't realize that AI "could show citations and descriptions that looked real but actually were not.”

  8. Bloomberg

    Michael Cohen Says AI-Created Fake Cases Mistakenly Used in Court Brief (opens Bloomberg)

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    Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen unwittingly included phony cases generated by artificial intelligence in a brief last month arguing for his post-prison release from supervision, according to court papers made public Friday.

  9. ABC 17 Mid-Missouri

    Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent attorney non-existent case citations generated by AI (opens ABC 17 Mid-Missouri)

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    By Nicki Brown, CNN (CNN) — Michael Cohen unwittingly sent his then-attorney non-existent case citations generated by artificial intelligence, he said in a court document unsealed Friday. Earlier this month, a federal judge ordered Cohen’s former attorney, David Schwartz, to explain where he came up…

  10. Green Field Reporter

    Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney - The Daily Reporter (opens Green Field Reporter)

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    NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s onetime personal lawyer and fixer, says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge.

  11. Portland Press Herald

    Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney (opens Portland Press Herald)

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    Cohen, who was disbarred five years ago, said to a judge that he found the citations by doing research through Google Bard and was unaware that the service could generate nonexistent cases.

  12. NBC News

    Michael Cohen says he unknowingly submitted fake AI-generated legal cases to lawyer (opens NBC News)

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    The former Trump attorney sent the bogus citations to a lawyer after mistaking Google Bard for a search engine, his legal team says.

  13. New York Post

    Former Trump ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen blames AI for citing fake cases in bid to end sentence early (opens New York Post)

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    Former Donald Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen admitted to giving his lawyer non-existent cases to cite as part of a bid to wrap up his supervised release following his guilty plea on charge…

  14. Engadget

    Former Trump ‘fixer’ Michael Cohen admits using Google Bard to cite bogus court cases (opens Engadget)

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    Donald Trump’s former “fixer,” Michael Cohen, used Google Bard to cite made-up legal cases that ended up in a federal court. Cohen admitted in unsealed court papers that he passed on documents referencing bogus cases to his lawyer, who then relayed them to a federal judge.

  15. New York Times

    Michael Cohen Used Artificial Intelligence to Feed Lawyer Bogus Cases (opens New York Times)

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    Donald Trump’s former fixer had sought an early end to court supervision after his 2018 campaign finance conviction. He enlisted the help of Google Bard.

  16. Courthouse News Service

    Michael Cohen says he unknowingly cited cases made up by Google AI software (opens Courthouse News Service)

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    Trump's fixer-turned-legal-foe said he misunderstood Google's Bard to be “a super-charged search engine” when he forwarded non-existent case citations to his attorneys.

  17. RedState

  18. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    Cohen admits using AI-generated legal citations (opens Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)

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    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's feed description

    Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer, says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge.

  19. Washington Examiner

    Michael Cohen gave lawyer fake AI-generated cases to submit to court (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen admitted in a statement unsealed on Friday that he inadvertently sent his lawyer three nonexistent cases to cite in a court filing after using the artificial intelligence program Google Bard to generate them.

  20. Delaware Public Media

    Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney (opens Delaware Public Media)

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    Delaware Public Media's feed description

    Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer and fixer says he passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge.

  21. Rolling Stone

    Michael Cohen Pulled Fake AI Court Cases for a Very Real Legal Motion (opens Rolling Stone)

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    Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen copped to accidentally providing his lawyer with fake legal citations cooked up by Google's AI chatbot.

  22. FOX 5 New York

    Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, using Google Bard, sent bogus cases to his attorney (opens FOX 5 New York)

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    The AI-generated cases, which turned out to be fake, were submitted to a judge in court documents.

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