Far-right Trump judge uses ChatGPT to determine whether term was 'racially hostile'

An appeal for a case in the Sixth Circuit revealed that a judge appointed by President Donald Trump and supported by the far-right Federalist Society used ChatGPT to determine "whether a term is racially hostile."

Public interest attorney Adam Pulver noticed the footnote in the 24-page filing alleging that an Arkansas-based trucking company created a racially hostile work environment. The lower court, led by Judge Eli J. Richardson, wrote in the concurrence that he had to seek aid from artificial intelligence.

"The concurrence cites a ChatGPT inquiry asking, 'What does monkey a-- mean?' ... ChatGPT functions as a consolidator of information, synthesizing patterns from a vast body of text, but it does not independently verify the accuracy of any material or its unknown sources. The information provided in the concurrence’s permalink to Urban Dictionary speaks for itself," the footnote says on page nine of the filing.

The initial lawsuit explains that their supervisors would frequently refer to them as "monkey" and "monkey a--."

Read the filing here.