A Stanford professor serving as an expert in a federal court lawsuit over fakery created by artificial intelligence submitted a sworn declaration containing false information likely made up by an AI chatbot, a legal filing claims.
The declaration submitted by Jeff Hancock, professor of communication and founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab, “cites a study that does not exist,” the Nov. 16 filing by the plaintiffs in the case alleged. “Likely, the study was a ‘hallucination’ generated by an AI large language model like ChatGPT.”
Hancock and Stanford did not immediately respond to requests for comment…