Ex-Trump fixer says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to lawyer

Michael Cohen says he unwittingly passed to his lawyer bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a New York judge (Stefan Jeremiah/AP)

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s one-time personal lawyer and fixer, says he unwittingly passed on to his lawyer bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge.

Cohen made the admission in a court filing unsealed on Friday in Manhattan federal court after a judge earlier this month asked a lawyer to explain how court rulings that do not exist were cited in a motion submitted on Cohen’s behalf.