In an bizarre twist, a Stanford University expert who studies misinformation appears to have created some of his own — while under oath. Hancock cited 15 references in his declaration, mostly research ...

Communication professor Jeff Hancock, an expert on technology and misinformation, has been accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) to craft a court statement. In November, Hancock — who is the ...

A Stanford University professor and misinformation expert accused of making up citations in a court filing has apologized — and blamed the gaffe on his sloppy use of ChatGPT. Jeff Hancock made the ...

Communication Professor Jeff Hancock admitted to overlooking “hallucinated citations” in a court declaration he crafted with assistance from ChatGPT. For the declaration, Hancock surveyed scholarly ...

Stanford Professor Allegedly Includes Fake AI Citations in Filing on Deepfake Bill Professor Jeff Hancock from the Stanford Social Media Lab submitted a legal argument in support of a Minnesota ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laurence Dutton/Getty Images A federal district judge issued a harsh rebuke and tossed out the testimony of a Stanford ...

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 ...

A Stanford University misinformation expert who was called out in a federal court case in Minnesota for submitting a sworn declaration that contained made-up information has blamed an artificial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images A Stanford misinformation expert has admitted he used artificial intelligence to draft a court document that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Data, Analytics and AI Strategy Advisor and Researcher Recently, controversy arose regarding Dr. Jeff Hancock, a Stanford ...

Something strange was happening at Jeff Hancock's work. It was 2022, just after OpenAI's release of ChatGPT to the masses, and the Stanford professor noticed something was off in the research ...