One detail in the Watson Grinding explosion litigation involving 3M changed the way I think about prompt governance. An engineering expert retained by 3M had been using ChatGPT while developing his analysis, and among the conversations that later surfaced was a prompt telling the system to “show how 3M is 0% at fault.” The reporting does not establish that 3M instructed the expert to use ChatGPT or directed him to enter that prompt, and that distinction matters. What matters just as much is what happened when the underlying AI interaction itself became relevant.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Will Moye described questioning the expert during his deposition after encountering material that appeared to ...