- Your honor my wholly original work of Halvin and Cobbs, a cartoon of a little boy and his pet tiger is entirely original to me.
- Did you use an AI to produce it?
- See, the problem with fine art is that it's supposed to express original truths.
But who likes originality and truth?! Nobody! Lifes hard enough without it! Only an idiot would pay for it!
Popular art knows the customer is always right! People want more of what they already know they like, so popular art gives it to 'em!
- Sir, did you use an AI to plagiarize your way to an unofficial sequel of a beloved comic strip? Answer the question!
- Yesn't.
> - Your honor my wholly original work of Halvin and Cobbs, a cartoon of a little boy and his pet tiger is entirely original to me.
And as you submit this to the court, the other party requests discovery of evidence from your computer, your communications and (based on that) the API logs of a particular third party provider you could have used, and uses that to not only dismiss your court claim but forward it to the local prosecutor - previously it was just a civil case, but perjury is quite punishable, in USA up to five years in jail (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1621).
You are then held in contempt for not giving a straight answer.
Its not like no one has ever thought of the idea of telling half-truths or digressions in court as a loop-hole before. Pretty sure judges take a very dim view of that.
