{"slug": "plaintiff-hid-prompts-in-court-filings-hoping-ai-was-calling-the-shots", "title": "Plaintiff hid prompts in court filings, hoping AI was calling the shots", "summary": "Connecticut Judge Walter Spader Jr. sanctioned a plaintiff for using prompt-injection in electronic court filings, marking a first in a decision issued August 6, 2026. The judge found text formatted to be invisible to humans but readable by software, apparently intended to influence AI systems reviewing the filings.", "body_md": "In a first, Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr. [issued a decision](https://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Elliott-v-New-York-Bariatric-Group-Memorandum-of-Decision-8-6-26.pdf) [PDF] sanctioning a plaintiff for \"use of prompt-injection\" in their electronic filings. [[via Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/suspecting-court-of-using-ai-man-injected-prompts-in-filings-to-try-to-win-case/)]\n\n\"The Court identified text that had been formatted to be invisible to a human reader while remaining fully legible to any software that reads the document's text,\" Spader wrote. — [Read the rest ](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/20/plaintiff-hid-prompts-in-court-filing-hoping-ai-was-calling-the-shots.html)\n\nThe post [Plaintiff hid prompts in court filings, hoping AI was calling the shots](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/20/plaintiff-hid-prompts-in-court-filing-hoping-ai-was-calling-the-shots.html) appeared first on [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/plaintiff-hid-prompts-in-court-filings-hoping-ai-was-calling-the-shots", "canonical_source": "https://boingboing.net/2026/08/20/plaintiff-hid-prompts-in-court-filing-hoping-ai-was-calling-the-shots.html", "published_at": "2026-08-20 18:44:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-20 19:43:12.741078+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Walter Spader Jr.", "Ars Technica", "Boing Boing"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/plaintiff-hid-prompts-in-court-filings-hoping-ai-was-calling-the-shots", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/plaintiff-hid-prompts-in-court-filings-hoping-ai-was-calling-the-shots.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/plaintiff-hid-prompts-in-court-filings-hoping-ai-was-calling-the-shots.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/plaintiff-hid-prompts-in-court-filings-hoping-ai-was-calling-the-shots.jsonld"}}