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An anti-deepfake declaration may have been written by AI
Two of the documents cited don’t seem to exist at all.
The Minnesota Reformer reports Attorney General Keith Ellison asked Stanford Social Media Lab founding director Jeff Hancock to make the submission, but the document filed includes non-existent sources that seem to have been hallucinated by ChatGPT or another large language model (LLM). Another source cited in Hancock’s declaration, “Deepfakes and the Illusion of Authenticity: Cognitive Processes Behind Misinformation Acceptance,” doesn’t seem to exist either. “Plaintiffs do not know how this hallucination wound up in Hancock’s declaration, but it calls the entire document into question, especially when much of the commentary contains no methodology or analytic logic whatsoever.”
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