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.
Cohen made the admission in a court filing unsealed Friday in Manhattan federal court after a judge earlier this month asked a lawyer to explain how court rulings that do not exist were cited in a motion submitted on Cohen’s behalf. Judge Jesse Furman had also asked what role, if any, Cohen played in drafting the motion.
The AI-generated cases were cited as part of written arguments attorney David M. Schwartz made to try to bring an early end to Cohen’s court supervision after he served more than a year behind bars. Cohen had pleaded guilty in 2018 to tax evasion, campaign finance charges and lying to Congress, saying Trump directed him to arrange the payment of hush money to a porn actor and to a former Playboy model to fend off damage to his 2016 presidential bid.
As it turns out, “unwittingly” can be used frequently when discussing Michael Cohen.
lol, yet another dipshit lawyer caught using ChatGPT because he’s either too lazy or stupid to double check the results.
The 2 minutes it takes to check on westlaw is simply too much
Should have used the bing AI. At least it quotes its sources.
I think it’s funny that ChatGPT is known to cover up its lies with more lies.
Tbf ChatGPT isn’t designed to lookup facts. It’s goal is to generate text and it’s amazing at that if applied right.
Bing AI is designed to use that text generation but feed it search results.
Normally I just point and giggle at trumps dumbass lawyers and their cartoonish stupidity, but this is just painfully sad and pathetic.
Title implies any of these idiot fucking jackholes does anything “wittingly,” which they absolutely do not.
do law firms not shepardize anymore? there is software that does it for you.
do law firms not shepardize anymore? there is software that does it for you.
bullshit ~ he knew exactly what he was doing
This clown looks more like Barry Zuckercorn every day. And shame on Cohen’s lawyer for trusting his idiot client.
It’s now been proven in court that Michael Cohen has the cleverness of a high school student cheating on their Spanish Civil War take home essay.
I mean, any story regarding a lawyer’s lawyer is gonna be silly.
