Zero Hedge wrote about our free speech lawsuit, Kohls v. Ellison, where one of the state of Minnesota’s experts cited an AI-generated study that does not exist.
“The citation bears the hallmarks of being an artificial intelligence (AI) ‘hallucination,’ suggesting that at least the citation was generated by a large language model like ChatGPT,” wrote the plaintiffs’ attorneys. “Plaintiffs do not know how this hallucination wound up in Hancock’s declaration, but it calls the entire document into question.”
Libertarian law professor Eugene Volokh found another fake entry – a study titled “Deepfakes and the Illusion of Authenticity: Cognitive Processes Behind Misinformation Acceptance,” which doesn’t appear to exist.
According to the Reformer, if the citations were fabricated by AI, Hancock’s entire 12-page declaration may have been entirely cooked up.
According to Frank Bednarz, an attorney for the plaintiffs, those in support of the deep fake law in question have argued that “unlike other speech online, AI-generated content supposedly cannot be countered by fact-checks and education,“ however “by calling out the AI-generated fabrication to the court, we demonstrate that the best remedy for false speech remains true speech — not censorship.”
Read more at Zero Hedge.