Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to citing fake, AI-generated court cases in a legal document that wound up in front of a federal judge, as reported earlier by The New York Times. A filing unsealed on Friday says Cohen used Google’s Bard to perform research after mistaking it for “a super-charged search engine” rather than an AI chatbot.

I… don’t even. I lack the words.

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    11 months ago

    Not even close to the second time. It’s happening constantly but is getting missed.

    Too many people think LLMs are accurate.

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      11 months ago

      Problem is that these llm answers like this will find their way onto search engines like Google. Then it will be even more difficult to find real answers to questions.

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        11 months ago

        Have found, not will find.

        There are so many spam sites with LLM content.