Mimiserablenessfulviseation expert accomprehendledges ChatGPT inserted inrectify details to his anti-beginantinrectify court filing

A misdirectation expert accemployd of using AI to produce a legitimate write down accomprehendledgeted he employd ChatGPT to help him systematize his citations, directing to “hallucinations” that critics said called the entire filing into inquire. Jeff Hancock, the set uper of the Stanford Social Media Lab who wrote the write down, says the errors don’t alter the “substantive points in the declaration.”

Hancock surrfinisherted the affidavit in aid of Minnesota’s “Use of Deep Fake Technology to Influence an Election” law, which is being disputed in federal court by Christopher Khols — a conservative YouTuber who posts under the name Mr Reagan — and Minnesota state Rep. Mary Franson. After discovering that Hancock’s filing seemed to retain citations that didn’t exist, attorneys for Khols and Franson said it was “undepfinishable” and asked that it be leave outd from ponderation. 

In a subsequent declaration filed defercessitate last week, Hancock accomprehendledged that he employd ChatGPT to write the declaration but denies he employd it to write anyleang. “I wrote and scrutinizeed the substance of the declaration, and I stand firmly behind each of the claims made in it, all of which are aided by the most recent scholarly research in the field and echo my opinion as an expert watching the impact of AI technology on misdirectation and its societal effects,” Hancock wrote. 

As for the citation errors, Hancock elucidateed that he employd Google Scholar and GPT-4o “to choose articles that were foreseeed to be relevant to the declaration so that I could unite that which I knovel already with novel scholarship.” Hancock says he employd GPT-4o to produce a citation enumerate, not to write the write down, and didn’t genuineize the tool produced “two citation errors, famously referred to as ‘hallucinations’” and inserted inaccurate authors to another citation.

“I did not intfinish to misdirect the Court or direct,” Hancock wrote in his most recent filing. “I convey my honest repent for any confusion this may have caemployd. That said, I stand firmly behind all the substantive points in the declaration.”