Did an AI Hallucination Help Convict Fugees Rapper Pras?
The post Did an AI Hallucination Help Convict Fugees Rapper Pras? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Artificial intelligence is finding its way into every facet of life, including the American legal system. But as the technology becomes more ubiquitous, the issue of AI-generated lies or nonsense—aka “hallucinations”—remains. These AI hallucinations are at the center of the claims by former Fugees member Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, who accused an AI model created by EyeLevel of torpedoing his multi-million dollar fraud case—a claim that EyeLevel co-founder and COO Neil Katz calls untrue. In April, Michel was convicted of 10 counts in his conspiracy trial, including witness tampering, falsifying documents, and serving as an unregistered foreign agent. Michel faces up to 20 years in prison after his conviction as an agent of China, as prosecutors said he funneled to try and influence U.S. politicians. “We were brought in by Pras Michel’s attorneys to do something unique—something that hadn’t been done before,” Katz told Decrypt in an interview. According to a report by the Associated Press, during closing arguments by Michel’s lawyer at the time, defense attorney David Kenner misquoted a lyric to the song “I’ll Be Missing You” by Sean “Diddy” Combs, incorrectly attributing the song to the Fugees. As Katz explained, EyeLevel was tasked to build an AI trained on court transcripts that would allow lawyers to ask complex natural language questions about what has occurred during the trial. He said that it did not pull other information from the internet, for example. Court proceedings notoriously generate tons of paperwork. The criminal trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, which is still ongoing, has already generated hundreds of documents. Separately, the fallen cryptocurrency exchange’s bankruptcy has more than 3,300 documents—some of them dozens of pages long. “This is an absolute game changer for complex litigation,” Kenner wrote in an EyeLevel blog post. “The system turned hours or days of legal…
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Artificial intelligence is finding its way into every facet of life, including the American legal system. But as the technology becomes more ubiquitous, the issue of AI-generated lies or nonsense—aka “hallucinations”—remains. These AI hallucinations are at the center of the claims by former Fugees member Prakazrel “Pras” Michel, who accused an AI model created by EyeLevel of torpedoing his multi-million dollar fraud case—a claim that EyeLevel co-founder and COO Neil Katz calls untrue. In April, Michel was convicted of 10 counts in his conspiracy trial, including witness tampering, falsifying documents, and serving as an unregistered foreign agent. Michel faces up to 20 years in prison after his conviction as an agent of China, as prosecutors said he funneled to try and influence U.S. politicians. “We were brought in by Pras Michel’s attorneys to do something unique—something that hadn’t been done before,” Katz told Decrypt in an interview. According to a report by the Associated Press, during closing arguments by Michel’s lawyer at the time, defense attorney David Kenner misquoted a lyric to the song “I’ll Be Missing You” by Sean “Diddy” Combs, incorrectly attributing the song to the Fugees. As Katz explained, EyeLevel was tasked to build an AI trained on court transcripts that would allow lawyers to ask complex natural language questions about what has occurred during the trial. He said that it did not pull other information from the internet, for example. Court proceedings notoriously generate tons of paperwork. The criminal trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, which is still ongoing, has already generated hundreds of documents. Separately, the fallen cryptocurrency exchange’s bankruptcy has more than 3,300 documents—some of them dozens of pages long. “This is an absolute game changer for complex litigation,” Kenner wrote in an EyeLevel blog post. “The system turned hours or days of legal…
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