COHEN ADMITS USING FAKE AI-GENERATED CITATIONS IN COURT CASE
It’s a case of fake it till you make it! Michael Cohen, former lawyer to Donald Trump, fessed up to submitting bogus AI-generated citations in court. Talk about a rookie mistake! Cohen unwittingly passed along the fake court rulings to his lawyer, who used them in a motion submitted to a judge. Yikes!
AI takes the fall
Cohen says he had no idea that the citations were fake and that he found them online. He insists he had no clue that the artificial intelligence-generated cases were totally made up. Cohen thought the website he used was just a super-charged search engine. Turns out it was more like a super-charge to nowherville, right?
Passing the blame
Cohen isn’t taking all the heat, though. He says it was his lawyer’s job to fact-check the citations, not his. Cohen’s lawyer, David M. Schwartz, claims the drafts were reviewed by someone else, and he never saw the bogus research himself. But who dropped the ball here, Cohen or his lawyer? That’s the million-dollar question!
History repeats itself
Surprise, surprise — this isn’t the first time AI-generated citations have surfaced in Manhattan federal court. Earlier this year, two lawyers were fined for citing fake cases invented by AI. Looks like there’s a lesson to be learned here: always double-check your homework!
Your turn to weigh in! Did Cohen really do the crime, or was it all just a simple mix-up? What do you think of the whole fiasco? Drop your comment below and let’s get the conversation started!
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