A misinformation expert accused of using AI to create legal documents admits he used ChatGPT to organize quotes and caused “hallucinations”, with critics saying this was the entire application He said he had doubts. Jeff Hancock, founder of the Stanford Social Media Lab, which wrote the document, said the error did not change “the substantive points of the declaration.”
Mr. Hancock filed an affidavit in support of Minnesota’s “Use of Deepfake Technology to Influence Elections” law, which was passed on to Christopher, a conservative YouTuber who posts under Mr. Reagan’s name. -The case is being challenged in federal court by Coles and Minnesota Rep. Mary Franson. . After discovering that Hancock’s filing appeared to contain citations that did not exist, lawyers for Coles and Franson called it “unreliable” and asked that it be removed from consideration.
Then, in a declaration filed late last week, Mr Hancock acknowledged using ChatGPT to draft the declaration, but denied using it to write anything. “I have written and reviewed the content of the Declaration and stand firmly behind each of the claims made within it, all of which are supported by the latest academic research in the field and “Reflects my opinion as an expert on the impact of misinformation and its social impact on technology,” Hancock wrote.
Regarding the citation error, Hancock explained that he used Google Scholar and GPT-4o “to identify papers that are likely to be relevant to the Declaration,” allowing him to integrate what he already knows with new scholarship. did. Mr. Hancock used GPT-4o to create a list of citations, not to write a document, but the tool produced “two citation errors, commonly referred to as ‘hallucinations,'” and misplaced one citation in another. He said that he did not realize that he had added the authors who were listed.
“I did not intend to mislead the court or my attorneys,” Hancock wrote in a recent filing. “I sincerely regret the confusion this has caused. Having said that, I firmly support all the substantive points of the declaration.”