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.
I mean I kind of see your point but calling those results AI is not accurate unless you’re just calling any kind of data collation/wrangling or even just basic programming logic “AI”. What Google is doing is taking the number of times a game is mentioned in the pages that are in the gaming category and trying to spoon feed you what it thinks you want. But that isn’t AI. the point of the person you were replying to is that it wasn’t as if he had intended to perform a Google search and was misled, you have to go to Google bard or chatgpt or whatever and prompt it, meaning it’s on you if you’re a professional who’s going to cite unverified word salad. The YouTube stuff is pretty obvious, it’s a part of their platform. What was done has nothing to do with web searches.