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Michael Cohen cites AI-generated court cases in his defense (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's the thing. I look around and have no reason to think fascism is impending. It's here.

Women are getting jailed for miscarriage, cops are hanging out lackadaisically outside a school shooting on their phones with zero consequences, homeless jumped 12% in one year, and the big issue is sending hundreds of billions more off to other countries' wars.

The only plus is that things have gotten so bad it's forced unions to become more aggressive and unyielding, which has effected more positive change for workers than the ruling parties have achieved in decades.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Women are getting jailed for miscarriage

Are you talking about the Ohio woman, because she wasn't arrested for a miscarriage?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure, you can argue she got arrested for "abuse of a corpse", but

In September, when Watts went to the hospital in pain and passing large blood clots, doctors told her that despite some fetal cardiac activity, her roughly 22-week pregnancy was not viable. She was in and out of the hospital over the next three days, including a lengthy wait for a hospital ethics panel to determine whether her preterm pregnancy, which was on the borderline of Ohio’s abortion limit, could be induced without legal liability for the doctors. Watts eventually went home against medical advice and experienced the miscarriage on the toilet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're leaving out the part where she tried to shove it down the toilet, then left it there for an extended period of time when that didn't work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, people afraid of going to jail for their bodily function will behave in unpredictable manners.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if you're into podcasts, but Adam conover's podcast Factually is really great. They have an episode called " what's the left gets wrong about the right" and it dives into how the right is primarily a reactionary movement to social and economic progress to try to maintain power for the owning and ruling class. It's a really great episode and it hits a lot on some of the similar points that you were mentioning with the unions. It's definitely worth checking it out If you've got like an hour to kill, It's super dope.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Conover’s rant about the Patagonia founder’s billion dollar donation to avoid taxes and set his kids up is really good too.