Michael Cohen, former lawyer for Donald Trump, apparently used Google Bard to help write a legal document that was submitted to a federal judge.

The document contained fake court citations in a motion from Cohen, who wants to end his supervised release from prison early due to campaign finance violations.

Cohen gave the citations to his lawyer based on his own online "research," which he apparently did using Google Bard. When asked to explain, he told the court that as a non-lawyer, he wasn't aware that Google Bard was a text generator that could create fake citations and descriptions.

He said he thought Bard was a "super-charged search engine" and claimed he had used it before to find accurate information online.

While he admitted responsibility for the bad citations, he said he didn't expect his lawyer, David Schwartz, to "just throw the cases into his submission without even checking if they were real."

US District Judge Jesse Furman reportedly asked Schwartz to explain why he shouldn't be punished by the court for citing three fake cases in the document.

This year, a lawyer in New York was punished for using ChatGPT to invent six fake court decisions. He used all of them in a 10-page report when fighting for his client who is suing the Colombian airline Avianca because they got hurt on their flight.

Recently, Cohen was an important part of a fraud legal case against Trump. People think he will talk in two other cases too: one about the law at the state level and another because some say former leader Donald not only lied but used business records to hide payments made by him to Stormy Daniels (an adult movie actress), which amounted up $130,00 wars.