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Walmart's sweeping rollback of its diversity policies is the strongest indication yet of a profound shift taking hold at US companies that are re-evaluating the legal and political risks associated with bold programmes to bolster historically under-represented groups. “We have a legal landscape within the entire federal government, all three branches -- the US Supreme Court, the Congress and the …

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Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen says he unwittingly sent AI-generated fake legal cases to his attorney

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s onetime personal lawyer and fixer, says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge. The tools can quickly generate text based off prompts from a user, but have a tendency to make things up, also known as “hallucinations.” Cohen blamed Schwartz, …

NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s onetime personal lawyer and fixer, says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge. The tools can quickly generate text based off prompts from a user, but have a tendency to make things up, also known as “hallucinations.” …

Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen mistakenly gave lawyers fake legal citations generated by artificial intelligence, the New York Times reported Friday. Cohen said in unsealed court papers that Google Bard created the citations used in a motion provided to a federal judge in Manhattan, the Times reported. According to the Times, Cohen casts some of the blame on lawyer …

Four of former President Donald Trump's legal advisers listed as unidentified co-conspirators in United States Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith's criminal indictment for the alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election were never paid "despite the fact that their lawsuits and false claims of election interference helped the Trump campaign and allied committees raise $250 million in the weeks …

A judge has imposed $5,000 fines on lawyers who used the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT for research and wound up submitting fictitious precedents to support their case. A federal judge Thursday imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm in an unprecedented case in which ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an aviation …

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Thursday imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm in an unprecedented instance in which ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an aviation injury claim. “But existing rules impose a gatekeeping role on attorneys to ensure the accuracy of their filings.” The judge said the lawyers …

Lawyers are a conservative bunch, befitting a profession that rewards preparedness, sagacity and respect for precedent. For that is what AI is: neither a fad nor an apocalypse, but a tool in its infancy—and one that could radically change how lawyers work and law firms make money. As Pablo Arredondo, creator of a generative-AI “legal assistant” called CoCounsel, explains, using …

Two apologetic lawyers responding to an angry judge blamed ChatGPT Thursday for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing. Hundreds of industry leaders signed a letter in May that warns “ mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” Judge Castel seemed …

NEW YORK — Two apologetic lawyers responding to an angry judge in Manhattan federal court blamed ChatGPT Thursday for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing. Hundreds of industry leaders signed a letter in May that warns “ mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as …

A judge is deciding whether to sanction two lawyers who blamed ChatGPT for tricking them into including fake legal research in a court filing. Hundreds of industry leaders signed a letter in May warning that “ mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” Castel seemed …

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A dispute between bond king Bill Gross and his next-door neighbor over a $1-million outdoor sculpture has devolved into police calls to their Laguna Beach mansions, multiple legal actions — and allegations that the billionaire investor blared the “Gilligan’s Island” theme song on a loop at all hours to annoy his neighbor. Gross and Schwartz, 51, actually beat their neighbors …