# Plaintiff hid prompts in court filings, hoping AI was calling the shots

> Source: <https://boingboing.net/2026/08/20/plaintiff-hid-prompts-in-court-filing-hoping-ai-was-calling-the-shots.html>
> Published: 2026-08-20 18:44:45+00:00

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/)]

"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)

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