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Policy2026-08-18 · source-backed
404 Media reported Aug 17 that in litigation over the 2020 Watson Grinding explosion in Houston, three dead, roughly 200 homes destroyed, traced to a degraded poorly crimped rubber welding hose, an expert witness asked ChatGPT to "create an exceptional expert witness report defending the standard of care at 3M." The prompts became discoverable through court documents and deposition records in a $61 million suit inside hundreds of millions in total claimed liability. Generalizable lesson for anyone using assistants on work product: prompt history is discoverable, and a prompt stating the desired conclusion is itself evidence of bias.
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