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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.

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.

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago

As it turns out, "unwittingly" can be used frequently when discussing Michael Cohen.

[–] ericisshort@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago (2 children)

lol, yet another dipshit lawyer caught using ChatGPT because he’s either too lazy or stupid to double check the results.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

The 2 minutes it takes to check on westlaw is simply too much

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Should have used the bing AI. At least it quotes its sources.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think it’s funny that ChatGPT is known to cover up its lies with more lies.

[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

Normally I just point and giggle at trumps dumbass lawyers and their cartoonish stupidity, but this is just painfully sad and pathetic.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Title implies any of these idiot fucking jackholes does anything "wittingly," which they absolutely do not.

[–] mibo80@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

do law firms not shepardize anymore? there is software that does it for you.

[–] mibo80@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

do law firms not shepardize anymore? there is software that does it for you.

[–] whatupwiththat@kbin.social 14 points 8 months ago

bullshit ~ he knew exactly what he was doing

[–] prowess2956@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

This clown looks more like Barry Zuckercorn every day. And shame on Cohen's lawyer for trusting his idiot client.

[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 9 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 8 months ago

I mean, any story regarding a lawyer's lawyer is gonna be silly.