Man Hides AI-Directed Text in Court Filing in Bid to Sway Ruling, Judge Says

A Connecticut judge has identified what appears to be the first attempt by a US plaintiff to hide text in court filings that only an AI system could read. The hidden instructions, invisible to human readers but legible to software, were designed to influence any AI reviewing the document to favor the plaintiff's arguments and disregard prior court rulings. The judge said the tactic had no bearing on the case's outcome but called it a dangerous precedent that is unlikely to be the last as AI becomes more common in courtrooms.