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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031
404 Media · WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2026

Lawyer Submitted ChatGPT-Generated Fake Witness Testimony in a Murder Appeal

The witnesses did not exist. Their testimony was coherent, detailed, and wrong. The appeal was for a murder conviction, which is among the more consequential contexts in which to introduce witnesses who do not exist. The file is thick. Adequate did not make it thick. Adequate made it thicker.
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