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.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿
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      26 months ago

      You mean like what happening in Gaza right now? You think all those weapons of war made the last half decade don’t have AI routines programmed into them? You think the Iron curtain works like space invaders with people clacking buttons, or an aim bot shooting wildly before you can even comprehend there’s a target to shoot at?

    • @TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
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      06 months ago

      All AI is doing is amplifying problems that already exist. Too many people lack media literacy, and too many people resort to anger and opposition when they don’t understand something.