Michael Cohen claims he mistook Google Bard for a “supercharged search engine,” as opposed to ChatGPT.
US President Donald Trump personal attorney
Michael Cohen, former US President Donald Trump personal attorney, admits to inadvertently citing false legal cases in a court document using Google’s AI chatbot, Bard.
According to Axios, the fabricated citations were used to achieve an early termination of court-ordered supervision, allowing Cohen to be freed from jail in 2021.
Cohen argued in a November motion that he had served his sentence in jail and had followed the terms of his release. A federal court, however, questioned the three case citations in the application, noting that “as far as the Court can tell, none of these cases exist.”
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Cohen’s lawyer was directed by the judge to give copies of the three rulings or to explain their references and Cohen’s participation in the petition.
According to unsealed court documents, Cohen’s lawyer, Danya Perry, disclosed that he utilized Google Bard to “conduct open-source research” at his request, but his lawyer, David Schwartz, incorporated the case citations in the motion without confirming them.
Schwartz said in a court letter that he had not properly verified the citations, saying that he assumed the citations were from Perry and would have studied them if he had known they came from Cohen, according to ABC News.
Cohen, a non-practicing lawyer, acknowledged failing to keep up with legal technology trends and hazards, claiming that he mistook Google Bard for a “super-charged search engine” and was unaware that it may generate phony citations, similar to ChatGPT.
“It did not occur to me then? and remains surprising to me now? “That Mr. Schwartz would drop the cases into his submission wholesale without even confirming that they existed,” he said.
This isn’t the first example to demonstrate the dangers of employing artificial intelligence for legal research.
Two New York lawyers were sanctioned earlier this year for presenting a court brief in a dispute against Avianca Airlines that cited six bogus cases created by ChatGPT.
One of the lawyers acknowledged using ChatGPT for research in a written affidavit, but said he “greatly regrets” his conduct.
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