Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to citing fake, AI-generated court cases in a legal document that wound up in front of a federal judge, as reported earlier by The New York Times. A filing unsealed on Friday says Cohen used Google’s Bard to perform research after mistaking it for “a super-charged search engine” rather than an AI chatbot.
I… don’t even. I lack the words.
I think the issue is we’re still in pretty uncharted territory here. It’ll take time for stuff like that to become the norm. That said… The lawyers should be doing those kind of checks anyways. They’re idiots if they don’t.