Silicon Valley wrote about Kohls v Ellison, where an expert from Stanford serving as an expert for the state of Minnesota submitted false information generated by AI.
A Stanford professor serving as an expert in a federal court lawsuit over fakery created by artificial intelligence submitted a sworn declaration containing false information likely made up by an AI chatbot, a legal filing claims.
The declaration submitted by Jeff Hancock, professor of communication and founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab, “cites a study that does not exist,” the Nov. 16 filing by the plaintiffs in the case alleged. “Likely, the study was a ‘hallucination’ generated by an AI large language model like ChatGPT.”
Hancock and Stanford did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The lawsuit was brought in Minnesota District Court by a state legislator and a satirist YouTuber seeking a court order declaring unconstitutional a state law criminalizing election-related, AI-generated “deepfake” photos, video and sound.
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