March 20, 2024
A New York federal judge on Wednesday declined to sanction Michael Cohen or his attorney for providing fictional cases generated by Google's artificial intelligence service to support a motion in Cohen's criminal case, finding that the citations were "embarrassing and certainly negligent" but not the product of bad faith.
December 12, 2023
A New York federal judge on Tuesday ordered one of Michael Cohen's attorneys to provide copies of three apparently fictional cases cited in a recent motion, in an incident appearing to echo other instances in which attorneys have been tripped up by the tendency of artificial intelligence to "hallucinate" legal citations.