Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, admitted in court that he used artificial intelligence (AI) to generate false information and pass it on to his lawyer. The 57-year-old used Google's Bard chatbot to find documents for a New York court case created by the software. This emerges from documents recently released by the Manhattan federal court, in which Cohen justifies his behavior.
Cohen told the court in testimony released yesterday that he was unaware that Google Bard was a text generator similar to ChatGPT. Cohen admitted his mistake.
The lawyer pleaded guilty to violations involving the use of Trump campaign donations in 2018 and was sentenced to three years in prison, but was allowed to serve part of the sentence under house arrest because of the pandemic.
It remains to be seen whether the episode will have any impact on the ongoing trial against former President Donald Trump. Cohen testified there as a key witness and is repeatedly portrayed as untrustworthy by Trump's defense.