Minnesota Reformer wrote an update to their November 20 article about our case, Kohls v Ellison, in which a Stanford misinformation expert admitting to using artificial intelligence to draft a court document that contained fake citations about AI.
Stanford’s Jeff Hancock submitted the document as an expert declaration in a case involving a new Minnesota law that makes it illegal to use AI to mislead voters prior to an election. Lawyers from the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute and the Upper Midwest Law Center, which are challenging the law on First Amendment grounds, noticed the fake citations several weeks ago and petitioned the judge to throw out the declaration.
Hancock billed the state of Minnesota $600 an hour for his services. The Attorney General’s Office said in a new filing that “Professor Hancock believes that the AI-hallucinated citations likely occurred when he was using ChatGPT-4o to assist with the drafting of the declaration,” and that he “did not intend to mislead the Court or counsel by including the AI-hallucinated citations in his declaration.”
Read more at Minnesota Reformer.