Posted on 12/29/2023 8:54:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Michael Cohen, a former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, said in court papers unsealed Friday that he had accidentally given his lawyers fictitious legal citations generated by an artificial intelligence program — an admission that could undermine his credibility when he testifies against his former boss.
The fake citations were used by Cohen’s lawyer, David Schwartz, in a motion submitted to federal Judge Jesse M. Furman, the New York Times reported Friday. Cohen had asked the judge in the motion for an early end to the court’s supervision of his case, after serving prison time and complying with the conditions of his release, the report said. He pleaded guilty in 2018 to campaign finance violations.
Cohen said in a sworn declaration that he did not realize that Google Bard was a “generative text service that, like ChatGPT, could show citations and descriptions that looked real but actually were not.” He also said he did not know his lawyer would submit his fake citations to the court without confirming they existed.
According to the Times, Cohen’s use of fake citations could undermine Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against Trump, in which Cohen is expected to be the star witness.
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I hope so.
Whole case would have to be halted, with some outside source brought in by the judge to figure how big a mess this is. I don’t buy into Cohen knowing much about this. Probably some DNC lawyers advising on this.
But I’d ask...if Cohen did this...who else did this?
What credibility could this d-bag possibly have left?
“Accidentally”
What kind of dummy has Micheal Cohen as a client and doesn’t check his client’s research ?
“an admission that could undermine his credibility”
What credibility?
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“Cheating? Why, that identical situation occurred in the New Hebrides Open. Kaduffleblaze versus Fuddle in 19-aught-18. And what about Fradis versus Ginfritter? Hah! Bizbo versus Stoigen in the Casablanca Amateur. Cheating, indeed! The noive!” — Bugs Bunny
Ooops.
Of course, last week using fake cites in cases was seriously frowned upon and could result in sanctions. Now that Cohen has used them they will be found to be quite acceptable by the Courts.
He accidentally given his lawyers fictitious legal citations generated by an artificial intelligence.
That’s the only intelligence they will get out of Cohen his greed is greater than his IQ.
Last month, there was an incident with another lazy lawyer getting into trouble over bs generated by ChatGPT. The judge gave that lawyer a second change but the bozo resubmitted the court more AI bs. Just wait for inmates to start using their get outta jail free cards over this.
Or, more alarmingly, an insurmountable problem for conservatives.
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