Ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen says AI created fake cases in court filing

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer and lawyer, said in court papers unsealed on Friday that he mistakenly gave his attorney fake case citations generated by an artificial intelligence program that made their way into an official court filing.
Cohen, who is expected to be a star witness against Trump at one of the former president’s criminal trials, said in a sworn declaration in federal court in Manhattan that he did not realize the citations generated by Google Bard were fictitious.
The case citations were included by an attorney for Cohen in a motion seeking an early end to his supervised release following Cohen’s imprisonment for campaign finance violations.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman earlier this month said three court decisions cited in the motion did not exist. He directed Cohen’s lawyer, David Schwartz, to demonstrate why he should not be sanctioned for citing non-existent cases.
Cohen, who was disbarred nearly five years ago, in Friday’s filings said those citations came from his own online research and that he had not expected Schwartz to “drop the cases wholesale into his submission without even confirming they existed.”