Anti-deepfake declaration could have been written by artificial intelligence

A federal lawsuit over Minnesota’s “use of fake technology to influence elections” law now directly targets the impact of artificial intelligence. In a recent filing, lawyers challenging the law claim that an affidavit filed in support of it shows signs of the presence of AI-generated text. Minnesota reformer reports Attorney General Keith Ellison asked Stanford Social Media Lab founding director Jeff Hancock to file a motion, but the filed document contains nonexistent sources that appear to be hallucinations of ChatGPT or another enormous language model (LLM).

Hancock’s statement cites a 2023 study published in the journal ” Journal of Information Technology & Politics titled “The Impact of Deepfake Videos on Political Attitudes and Behavior.”

But according to Reformerthere is no mention of this study in Journal of Information Technology & Politics or any other publication. Another source cited in Hancock’s declaration, “Deepfakes and the Illusion of Authenticity: Cognitive Processes Behind Misinformation Acceptance,” also appears to be missing.

Hancock didn’t answer Edgerequest for comment.

“The quote bears the hallmarks of an artificial intelligence (AI) ‘hallucination,’ suggesting that at least the quote was generated by a enormous language model such as ChatGPT” – Lawyers for Minnesota State Representatives Mary Franson and Christopher Khols – Conservative YouTuber Who is Mr. Reagan – he wrote in the application. “Plaintiffs don’t know how this hallucination ended up in Hancock’s declaration, but it calls the entire document into question, especially when much of the commentary contains no methodology or analytical logic.”