And I thought that the “expert” hired by a certain German publishing house was bad, putting his considerable academic reputation on the line with some complete bullshit arguments (as in: contradicting CS Theory 101 course to support his employer’s line of argumentation). That was a while ago, so I guess that he used students to play the role of cheap text generators. Nowadays that is no longer necessary of course. https://www.404media.co/show-how-3m-is-0-at-fault-expert-witness-used-chatgpt-to-write-report-defending-company-in-deadly-explosion-lawsuit/