Judge Goes Ballistic When Man Shows AI-Generated Video in Court

A 74-year-old entrepreneur played an entirely AI-generated video of a male avatar to address the judge during a court appearance on his behalf. And as The Register reports, the judge was extremely unimpressed by the stunt, and proceeded to chew him out. Plaintiff Jerome Dewald appeared before the New York State's Supreme Court on March 26 as part of an employment dispute with an insurance company called MassMutual Metro. "Now may it please the court, I come here today a humble pro se before a panel of five distinguished justices," said a well-groomed, sweater-wearing AI avatar — who looks roughly three decades younger than Dewald — in the video. But the video was interrupted almost immediately. "Is this … hold on? Is that counsel for the case?" a confused associate justice Sallie Manzanet-Daniels asked. "That? I generated that," a proud and in-the-flesh Dewald responded from inside the courtroom. "That is not a real person," he clarified sheepishly. "It would have been nice to ... Read full article.