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Michael Cohen, long-time legal version of a mob consigliere to former US President and as yet unconvicted criminal Donald Trump, used Google's Bard to get help with his case and plan a vacation, assuming he isn't convicted and needs to serve any time. Bard is the Pepsi to OpenAI's ChatGPT Coke. Cohen was attempting to help his own lawyer with legal research and turned to Bard for assistance. Impressed with the answers he got, he also used Bard to plan a vacation. He made a few legal inquiries to Bard and ended up with some cases that looked legitimate but weren't, which he passed on to his lawyer who didn't bother to check that they were actual cases. Cohen encountered what is known in the AI business as “hallucinations”, which are the imagined hopes and dreams of the AI system based on false data—basically, it lies. So, Cohen ended up with a list cases that didn't exist and a really special vacation to Fargo, North Dakota. The judge in Michael Cohen's case was none too happy to find that the cases were the hallucinations of some computer. The judge suggested Cohen cancel his lovely trip since the case is not going very well.