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Michael Cohen cites AI-generated court cases in his defense (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 71 points 10 months ago (11 children)

That's the second time a lawyer has made this mistake, though the previous case wasn't at such a high level

[–] huginn@feddit.it 57 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Not even close to the second time. It's happening constantly but is getting missed.

Too many people think LLMs are accurate.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Problem is that these llm answers like this will find their way onto search engines like Google. Then it will be even more difficult to find real answers to questions.

[–] huginn@feddit.it 1 points 10 months ago

Have found, not will find.

There are so many spam sites with LLM content.

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