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Negative_Gravitas Mar 31, 2026 +855

"Proceeding under the assumption that no one would check his work, California sheriff uses AI to lie in legal filings." Strip this f****** idiot traitor of his office, melt down his badge in front of him, and lock him the f*** up.

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Valuable_Sea_4709 Mar 31, 2026 +318

For every document on which he lied, he should be charged with felony perjury. Every AI generated quote is itself a lie. Dozens of counts of felony perjury and defrauding the state of California. That's step one. Step two would be a series of charges related to this clear conspiracy to manipulate an election. Anyone that he discussed it with, anyone that instructed him or provided legal counsel, all should be charged with the same. Step 3 would be felony theft charges, one for every single ballot that he illegally obtained using those fraudulent quotes which he perjured himself by committing to paper or digital record. And if after that point he hasn't been convicted and sentenced to enough prison time as to guarantee he spends the rest of his life behind bars? Then every American who had their ballot stolen, which at this point would be legally proven at least twice over, should be able to sue him and the Sheriff's Department for monetary damages. With all the relevant facts proven to the criminal standard, it's just a matter of determining whether or not you were one of the people whose ballot was stolen, and exactly how much money you're entitled to in compensation for that.

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Root-magic Mar 31, 2026 +102

By the time he’s indicted, the state’s case against him, will be airtight. I hope the voters also file a class action lawsuit against him and the sheriff’s office

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eaglebtc Apr 1, 2026 +20

Rob Bonta (AG) needs to work with Shirley Weber (SOS) to remove his ass from the f****** ballot NOW.

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AliMcGraw Apr 1, 2026 +20

Also Step 4, ChatGPT was just charged in Illinois with the unauthorized practice of law for similar fuckery. Go after the AI company too.

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AVGuy42 Apr 1, 2026 +7

Got a link? I’m extremely interested in this

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All_Hail_Hynotoad Apr 1, 2026 +4

[New Lawsuit Claims ChatGPT Practices Law Without a License](https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/practice-of-law/new-lawsuit-claims-chatgpt-practices-law-without-a-license/)

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spaceman757 Apr 1, 2026 +4

This will be the only way to stop it....until the AI companies pay congress members to pass a law stating that they aren't liable.

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falilth Mar 31, 2026 +89

Quite literal election interference

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ennuiinmotion Mar 31, 2026 +78

What is it with Republicans an AI? I know I’ll get a snarky comment but I’m serious. From politicians to family and locals, they’ve completely embraced AI to do their thinking. Not just on political stuff. They’re so much more supportive and reliant on AI than anyone else I’ve seen other than someone working for an AI firm.

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Lumpy-Direction4360 Mar 31, 2026 +48

Religion/ faith replacing critical thinking.

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Alaishana Apr 1, 2026 +11

Nearly. "Thinking" is a skill that needs to be learned and practised. Culturally, it is a pretty new way of approaching things. We have survived with story telling ever since we acquired speech. Story telling is our natural MO. Religion sits right in the middle of what we are using story telling for. You have to evolve above mere stories to actually 'think'. The VAST majority of people are unable to actually think and even those who can do it, avoid it whenever possible. It's just that many ppl tell themselves more or less correct stories, so it does not show so much.

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maddieterrier Mar 31, 2026 +76

They’ve been trained from birth not to think for themselves.

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Harabec_ Mar 31, 2026 +24

I think mainly it's a bone-deep belief in mythic truth. So long as X or Y supports the core beliefs that are to them fundamental to reality, then X or Y is true. If A or B contradicts one of those core beliefs, A or B is a lie. You see this with the whole "they're eating the cats" thing where nobody pushing it seemed to care if cats were being eaten, only that capital T Them eating cats and dogs sure does seem like something They would do. What AI produces may or may not be true, but to them that's an uninteresting question so long as it pulls in the right direction.

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cone10 Apr 1, 2026 +3

>You see this with the whole "they're eating the cats" thing where nobody pushing it seemed to care if cats were being eaten, only that capital T Them eating cats and dogs sure does seem like something They would do. Well said. Also qanon, pizzagate

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Harabec_ Apr 1, 2026 +1

I like the dog's dinner example because it is and was so nakedly untrue the whole time and even at the time you got JD Vance (I think it was him, anyway) straight up admitting that it wasn't happening but still insisting that it meant something important that it could've happened. QAnon, pizzagate, those are better for highlighting how debunking a thing often reinforces their belief in a thing, but for nailing the overall vibe of how the mythic truth has changed modern fascist politics they're both a little too familiar as conspiracy theories. Not that those aren't relevant or important, the dog dinner thing is a much smaller nugget but it's a nugget of purely this one aspect. Whether or not something is real doesn't factor in to if it's True for them or not, they just wanna be racist.

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TheVoters Apr 1, 2026 +1

Colbert nailed it 20 years ago when he coined “truthy”. Truthyness is more important to the GOP base than truth.

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APX919 Mar 31, 2026 +10

Tied to the techbros, that's why. Thiel and friends have their dirty claws sunk into the bloated corpse that is the Republican party.

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SkySojourner Mar 31, 2026 +6

Because they've always been sheep in search of a Shepard.

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Broken-Digital-Clock Mar 31, 2026 +5

They like being lied to, if it's convenient.

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All_i_do_is_lunk Mar 31, 2026 +3

The promise of having enough “labor” to implement their police state is the main draw. Along with the ability to claim anything negative about them is fake and the ability to create semibelievable propaganda to feed their base and try to win over any undecideds.

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stuffitystuff Apr 1, 2026 +2

They don't generally care about the means, just the ends. Liberals tend to care about both.

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MadAstrid Apr 1, 2026 +2

These republicans are trained and have become accustomed to others telling them what to do. They have been trained and have become accustomed to complying with what they are told to do without giving it thought. This training happens in their authoritarian homes, in their homogeneous communities, and in their right wing churches. Their communities encourage them to remain willing followers by discouraging them from travel, higher learning and anything new. The fact that a problematic computer program tells them to believe something does not, like it might with others, cause them to think critically, double-check or verify. Generations of this behavior, and the accompanying disdain for education and critical thought in general, has ingrained this behavior to the point that they struggle to tell right from wrong, good from bad, or truth from lies on their own. They must depend upon others, human or otherwise, to tell them how to think.

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ProfessorVolga Apr 1, 2026 +2

I mean, the simple answer is that their brains were *already* cooked. Conservatives are extra susceptible to misinformation/propaganda and extremely averse to self-reflection and critical thought. There's no world where the slop machine telling what they want to hear would not be widely adopted by them.

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TarbenXsi Apr 1, 2026 +2

They are being told, constantly, that AI is the future. That AI will reshape the way we think. That AI is the pinnacle of technology. They don't understand what an LLM is, or how AI works on any level. On top of that. ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, or a dozen other platforms are one click away. They don't understand what an AI hallucination is. They don't understand that the chatbot is programmed to please you, so if you keep pushing it will tell you exactly what you want to hear. To them, it's a technological miracle at their fingertips. They hear that the AI race is going to revolutionize the US, and we are "beating China" or whatever else is in the news about AI, including the comments about how ChatGPT or Grok or whatever has been updated to provide better, more reliable answers. And, if they do small test cases... it works! Ask AI to tell you something simple, it tells you! So clearly, it works! And they prompt it more, with more complex notions, asking for deeper and more detailed things... and it keeps generating responses, never once telling them "I don't know that" or "I don't understand." So they trust it, implicitly. No critical thought. Just like they trust what they see on Fox, just like they trust Alex Jones or Joe Rogan, just like they trust Pam Bondi, just like they trust Elon Musk, just like they trust the president, just like they trust their preacher who is telling them that they are good people destined for heaven even when they are praying for genocide. AI is their new golden calf.

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Sad_Locksmith_2904 Mar 31, 2026 +5

All of them. MAGA are the most prolific traitors to America, they all need to be tried for treason.

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FreedomBread Mar 31, 2026 +3

Literally an enemy of the people. He is a domestic terrorist who seized ballots illegally.

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aquilles10 Apr 1, 2026 +2

Lock him up! Lock him up!

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LeftToaster Apr 1, 2026 +1

Lie big enough and often enough, you get to be President.

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Difficult_Key3793 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Shave off his mustache too

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Taint_Liquor Mar 31, 2026 +179

This fascist should be arrested and his candidacy for governor halted.

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literallytwisted Mar 31, 2026 +66

Yeah this is silly, Sheriff Cletus is a criminal and should just be arrested by state police after an indictment. People need to stop acting like conservative nuts are special.

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DrShadowstrike Apr 1, 2026 +10

He's just following the successful playbook where being a candidate and getting elected is a shield against being prosecuted for crimes.

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sinsaint Apr 1, 2026 +4

Sorry, that only works in Red states.

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B-Z_B-S Mar 31, 2026 +80

(From the article): "A California sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots in an attempt to challenge last year’s redistricting referendum is now facing allegations of using made-up quotations in a legal brief opposing a lawsuit challenging that seizure. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican who is also running for governor of California, took custody of the ballots and began his own recount based on allegations of a huge discrepancy between ballots cast and counted. County officials said that figure stemmed from a volunteer group’s misunderstanding of how votes are tabulated. In response, four Riverside County voters represented by the UCLA Voting Rights Project have filed a lawsuit with the California Supreme Court demanding Bianco return the seized ballots and accusing him of violating state election laws by removing the ballots from the custody of local election officials. In a brief filed Monday, the UCLA Voting Rights Project said Bianco and his private attorney, Robert Tyler, incorrectly cited a quotation in the brief they filed in opposition to the voters’ lawsuit. In the filing, Bianco’s attorney argued that the voters didn’t have standing to file suit, citing a ruling in the case Common Cause v. Board of Supervisors that standing requires “a grievance shared in substantially equal measure by all or a large class of citizens.” But that quotation “appears nowhere in the opinion,” the plaintiffs’ attorneys noted. And they argued it was part of a “concerning pattern” throughout Bianco’s brief. “Several cases cited in the brief reference real cases but point to non-existent quotes and made-up holdings. Several citations are to cases that do not stand for the proposition Respondent represents,” they wrote. In fact, the Common Cause ruling cited in Bianco’s brief actually demonstrates that the voters do have standing, they noted. It’s not the first time questionable quotations have found their way into consequential legal documents related to voting rights. In November, as the Wisconsin Supreme Court took steps towards striking down the state’s congressional map, a conservative justice included a non-existent quote from a real past U.S. Supreme Court ruling in her dissent. Such non-existent quotes can be the result of lawyers using artificial intelligence to help draft their arguments — though it’s unclear how they wound up in Bianco’s brief. Tyler, the sheriff’s lawyer, did not immediately respond to a request for comment asking him to clarify where the quotation came from and whether he had used AI to write the brief."

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tellmewhenimlying Mar 31, 2026 +54

As a lawyer licensed in multiple states including California, Tyler should be fined heavily and ultimately disbarred for this bullshit. He won't be unfortunately, but he should be.

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BigHungryFlamingo Mar 31, 2026 +47

1) Lose your job 2) Prison

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Orwells_Roses Mar 31, 2026 +39

He used AI to fabricate a pretense for his election interference scheme.

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FoxIndependent5789 Mar 31, 2026 +24

I think we found the election fraud!

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K-Tronn3030 Mar 31, 2026 +12

Lots of attorneys getting in trouble for using AI. It's a bad idea and there should be consequences. Those are unlikely to reach the client though.

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thisusedyet Mar 31, 2026 +12

It’s bad enough to have AI write a legal brief, but *how f****** lazy* do you have to be to not at least look over the citations ***once*** before you file it?

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spaceman757 Apr 1, 2026 +3

My company has embraced AI fully for creating a lot of client proposals and recommendations. They do, however, stress very, very heavily, that AI makes a lot of mistakes and, even though it can analyze a lot of data and summarize large quantities, as well, you better triple check everything because, if you do use AI and there are mistakes that you were too lazy to check, you are done.

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Ven18 Mar 31, 2026 +4

The fact that it is picking real cases at least seems like an improvement for the AI. The first time I heard of AI briefs they were literally creating completely fake case law.

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Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo Apr 1, 2026 +1

I would argue that this is much, much worse. Identifying fabricated cases is relatively easy and straightforward. Vetting every quote, argument, judgement, etc from every case is much harder. It's much more likely to be accepted as true and accurate by someone who doesn't already have deep content expertise and knowledge of individual cases.

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Ven18 Apr 1, 2026 +1

True. I guess better in that case was the AI not being as dumb which is bad in the long run.

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K-Tronn3030 Apr 1, 2026 +1

But it's also opposing counsels job to do that work. I do it every time I get a brief from the other side because it's such a layup to absolutely destroy their credibility with the judge.

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virgil_of_the_brooks Mar 31, 2026 +9

Give him an absolutely biblical level punishment for his treason and sedition! It should be so severe no one would dream of following in his footsteps. Since the guardians of pedophiles love to blaspheme Christianity so much, maybe we should look there for inspiration?

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stereosalvation Mar 31, 2026 +15

How I'm guessing that legal defense started: "Hey, Claude...."

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ianrl337 Mar 31, 2026 +17

No, MAGA is more ChatGPT than Anthropic

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BrainJar Apr 1, 2026 +6

He lied. Just say he lied. It’s so much easier. Or, say perjured himself, which is just lying with legal consequences. Saying “used non-existent quotes makes it sound like something that was ok.

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tomgratz Apr 1, 2026 +4

What ? He lied in a legal document ? He is an outlaw. Lock him up !

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supercali45 Apr 1, 2026 +3

This little stunt alone should disqualify him from running.. ridiculous

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Stunning_Kick_1229 Mar 31, 2026 +3

SMH. Talk about flooding the zone with shit.

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rockcod_ Mar 31, 2026 +3

Get that toad out of there.

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Basic_Yam_715 Apr 1, 2026 +3

It would be great if someone could hold a republican accountable.

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Skwizgar1019 Apr 1, 2026 +2

“Yeah, I done wrote em m’self, but I put quotes on ‘em, don’t that make it a quote?”

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Aggressive-Will-4500 Apr 1, 2026 +2

Why does he have a black stripe across his badge?

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JVilter Apr 1, 2026 +1

If this photo is recent, probably for the deputy that died doing the Baker to Vegas race

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Galactic-Guardian404 Apr 1, 2026 +2

Republican, I presume

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Aggravating_Wall2104 Apr 1, 2026 +2

He should go to jail. Where is State AG.

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IckyJ2112 Apr 1, 2026 +2

Just like a true republican. Just make up shit as an excuse to do whatever illegal activity they feel like. Then blame any threat of accountability on the “Libs”.

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CQscene Apr 1, 2026 +2

If the AG of Cali, Rob Bonta, cannot convict this man or goes a bit soft on him, Bonta needs to be arrested.

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Nizick Apr 1, 2026 +2

Funny way to say he lied.

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Disastrous_Ad_370 Apr 1, 2026 +2

Arrest him. Perjury. Election interference.

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JiveChicken00 Mar 31, 2026 +1

Stupid people do stupid things, film at 11.

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M4MRDR187 Mar 31, 2026 +1

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oneseason2000 Mar 31, 2026 +1

The "stash" is a little off brand, but the hair is on point for senior leadership in the federal executive branch. Decision making though makes him a solid "Definitely Promote" for them ... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete\_Hegseth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth)

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fuck-nazi Apr 1, 2026 +1

Soo… air quotes?

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Accomplished_Sea3811 Apr 1, 2026 +1

Not the right way to flip Cali.

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MyFirstCarWasA_Vega Apr 1, 2026 +1

El Salvador prison lands about right

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ATFGunr Apr 1, 2026 +1

Just another criminal in a position of authority in America. Seems to be happening a lot lately…

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gomezwhitney0723 Apr 1, 2026 +1

So in true MAGA form. Do something illegal because you’re maga and think laws don’t apply to you - get caught - lie - get called out on lie - lie again and blame something else - truth comes out - witch hunt. I’m sure the last couple stages of what I said are coming soon. Just watch.

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