“Expert on Misinformation” , in a case on “deep fakes”, uses a source that doesn’t exist…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
…and might be AI generated<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the behest of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Hancock recently submitted an affidavit supporting new legislation<\/a> that bans the use of so-called \u201cdeep fake\u201d technology to influence an election. The law is being challenged in federal court<\/a> by a conservative YouTuber and Republican state Rep. Mary Franson of Alexandria for violating First Amendment free speech protections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hancock\u2019s expert declaration in support of the deep fake law<\/a> cites numerous academic works. But several of those sources do not appear to exist, and the lawyers challenging the law say they appear to have been made up by artificial intelligence software like ChatGPT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For instance, the declaration cites a study titled \u201cThe Influence of Deepfake Videos on Political Attitudes and Behavior,\u201d and says that it was published in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics<\/em> in 2023. But no study by that name appears in that journal; academic databases don\u2019t have any record of it existing; and the specific journal pages referenced contain two entirely different articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe citation bears the hallmarks of being an artificial intelligence (AI) \u2018hallucination,\u2019 suggesting that at least the citation was generated by a large language model like ChatGPT,\u201d attorneys for the plaintiffs write<\/a>. \u201cPlaintiffs do not know how this hallucination wound up in Hancock\u2019s declaration, but it calls the entire document into question.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n And that’s not all<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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