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

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.

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 The 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 .