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A federal lawsuit over Minnesota\u2019s \u201cUse of Deep Fake Technology to Influence An Election\u201d law is now directly dealing with the influence of AI. In a recent filing, attorneys challenging the law say an affidavit submitted to support it shows signs of containing AI-generated text. The Minnesota Reformer<\/em> reports<\/a> 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).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hancock\u2019s affidavit cites a 2023 study published in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics<\/em> titled \u201cThe Influence of Deepfake Videos on Political Attitudes and Behavior.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n But according to the Reformer<\/em>, there is no record of that study in the Journal of Information Technology & Politics<\/em> or any other publication. Another source cited in Hancock\u2019s declaration, \u201cDeepfakes and the Illusion of Authenticity: Cognitive Processes Behind Misinformation Acceptance,\u201d doesn\u2019t seem to exist either. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hancock did not respond to The Verge<\/em>\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe citation bears the hallmarks of being an artificial intelligence (AI) \u2018hallucination,\u2019 suggesting that at least the citation was generated by a large language model like ChatGPT,\u201d lawyers for Minnesota state Rep. Mary Franson and Christopher Khols \u2014 a conservative YouTuber who goes by Mr Reagan \u2014 wrote<\/a> in a filing. \u201cPlaintiffs do not know how this hallucination wound up in Hancock\u2019s declaration, but it calls the entire document into question, especially when much of the commentary contains no methodology or analytic logic whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n