--- title: In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot», a lesson of the ai course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When we talk about real news we say "it was reported that", because we were not there and reports can be wrong; thes --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / In the news: invented court cases and… # In the news: invented court cases and an airline's chatbot Lesson 20 of the ai course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/0/) — When we talk about real news we say "it was reported that", because we were not there and reports can be wrong; these lessons do the same. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/1/) — It was reported that lawyers in America gave a court a list of past cases to back up their argument, and the cases had been invented by a chatbot. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/3/) — The lawyers trusted the chatbot because it sounded so sure, and sounding sure is not proof. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/4/) — Other news showed the same lesson from other sides: a company had to stand behind its chatbot's wrong promise, fake pictures and fake voices hurt real people, and even a big company's picture maker got history wrong. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/5/) — It was reported that lawyers in America handed a court past cases that a chatbot had invented, and that the judge fined them. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/6/) — Chatbots can produce made-up cases, books or quotes that sound real; even experts must check them. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/7/) — Confident writing makes people trust it, but confidence is not proof. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/8/) — It was reported that more cases of invented court cases in legal papers happened later, in other countries too. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/9/) — It was reported that an airline's website chatbot told a man he could claim a refund later, which was not the airline's real rule. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/10/) — It was reported that a tribunal (a kind of court that settles disagreements) decided the airline had to honour what its chatbot had said and did not accept that the bot alone was to blame. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/11/) — A company is responsible for what its chatbot tells customers. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/12/) — It was reported that fake, AI-made pictures of a famous singer spread online and upset her fans, and that social media sites struggled to remove them quickly. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/13/) — Fakes can spread faster than they can be removed; reporting them helps and sharing them harms. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/14/) — It was reported that a robocall used a fake, AI-made voice of a US president telling people not to vote in an election, and that fines and criminal charges followed. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/15/) — Using fake voices to trick voters is treated seriously and can be against the law; official sources are the place to check voting rules. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/20-news-court-cases-airline/16/) — It was reported that a big company's image generator made historically wrong pictures, because its makers' rules were applied even where they did not fit; people criticised it, and the company paused the feature. - ← previous: [Counting the AI in one ordinary day](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/19-ai-in-one-ordinary-day/) - next →: [In the news: deepfakes, fake robocalls and history gone wrong](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/21-news-deepfakes-history/) - ↑ back to [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/)