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- Michael Cohen was looking for cases to back up his legal claim, so he turned to Google's AI chatbot, Bard.
- But the cases were bogus.
- Cohen's lawyer never checked that the cases actually existed before mentioning them in court.
The latest victim of an AI screw-up? Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen and his lawyer.
Cohen admitted in a sworn statement in a Manhattan federal court case that he used Google Bard, a generative AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT, to find legal cases backing up his arguments for why he should be let loose early from his supervised release.