Michael Cohen Admits to Unknowingly Providing AI-Generated Fake Legal Citations

The incident, which involved citations from Google Bard, could cast doubt on Cohen's credibility in ongoing fraud cases against Trump.

Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, admitted to unwittingly providing his attorney with fake legal case citations generated by artificial intelligence (AI) service Google Bard.
The fake citations were used in a bid to end Cohen's court supervision early, following his 2018 guilty plea for tax evasion, campaign finance offenses, and lying to Congress.
Cohen blamed his lawyer, David Schwartz, for not verifying the validity of the citations before submitting them to the court.
The incident could potentially impact Cohen's credibility as a witness in ongoing fraud cases against Trump.
This is the second time this year that a Manhattan federal court has dealt with lawyers citing fake cases generated by AI.