Oh, the irony.
A law in Minnesota designed to target AI and deepfakes - similar to Gavin Newsom's deepfake law in California - suffered a major blow as one of the star "misinformation experts" who wrote a document in support of the law used AI to generate several false sources for his paper.
According to the report, Professor Jeff Hancock's written declaration in defense of the law contained 15 citations, two of which cannot be found, and which appear to be generated by AI.
Lawyer Frank Bednarz covered the story on X:
On top of all this, the state paid Hancock $600 per hour to write it.
What's more, he made these declarations, "under penalty of perjury that everything he stated in the document was 'true and correct.'"
The lawyers for the plaintiffs, who are suing the state over the law, issued this statement:
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. The existence of a fictional citation Hancock (or his assistants) didn't even bother to click calls into question the quality and veracity of the entire declaration.
The lawsuit against Minnesota's "Use of Deep Fake Technology to Influence An Election" law was brought by a state rep and Christopher Kohls, a conservative Youtuber who creates political parodies. He contends the law attacks free speech and political expression.
Soros-backed AG Keith Ellison is defending the law, and has now been caught using AI and misinformation to do so.
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