Michael Cohen, former lawyer and “handyman” of former US President Donald Trump, claimed in legal documents published this Friday that he falsely gave his lawyer false quotes generated by an artificial intelligence program that were in a real one court procedures were used.
Cohen, who is expected to be one of the key witnesses against Trump in one of the criminal cases against the former president, said in an affidavit in federal court in Manhattan that he was not aware that the quotes generated by Google Bard are fictitious.
Bard is a generative AI chatbot developed by Alphabet's Google. The quotes were included by a lawyer for Cohen in a motion seeking to advance the end of his supervised release after he was arrested on campaign finance crimes.
District Judge Jesse Furman said this month that three court decisions cited in the motion did not exist. He asked Cohen's attorney, David Schwartz, to explain why he should not be punished for citing unrealistic cases.
Cohen said the quotes came from his own research and that he didn't expect Schwartz would “leave them on his petition without even acknowledging that they existed.”
“I deeply regret any problems Mr. Schwartz’s application has caused,” Cohen said.
North American courts must grapple with the rapid deployment of generative AI like ChatGPT and how to regulate their use in court proceedings.
In June, two New York lawyers were suspended for filing six subpoenas in fictitious cases created by ChatGPT.
Recently, Cohen was a witness in a fraud case brought against Donald Trump by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
He is also expected to testify in a federal criminal case against Trump, who is accused of falsifying financial records to hide refunds to Cohen for a $130,000 payment he made before the 2016 presidential election. to silence porn star Stormy Daniels.
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