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Alleged Fake Citations Undermine Expert Testimony in Minnesota Deepfake Law Case

AI Incident Database · article · Nov 20, 2024 · UTC

In a legal case defending Minnesota’s deepfake election misinformation law, Stanford misinformation expert Professor Jeff Hancock's affidavit allegedly cited non-existent academic sources, potentially generated by ChatGPT. The reportedly fabricated citations appear to have undermined the credibility of his testimony.

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incident-report
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Reported occurrence date: 2024-11-01T00:00:00.000Z

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AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

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