An employee or user who unknowingly spreads false information, security vulnerabilities, or policy violations by trusting and sharing unverified generated outputs.

A dramatic legalistic phrase used in compliance seminars to describe a well-meaning employee who copy-pastes a hallucinated quote or fake contract date into an official report.

• Legalistic Blame Language: Framing a well-meaning employee who trusts a bad software summary as an "unwitting crime perpetuator."
• Shifting Responsibility: Blaming employees for spreading false information rather than fixing the software tool's hallucination bugs.
• House-Cleaning Reality: Like repeating bad gossip you heard on the radio and calling yourself an "unwitting perpetuator."

Catch Me If You Can (2000s) scene where bank tellers smilingly cash fake checks for Frank Abagnale Jr., acting as unwitting perpetuators of fraud.

An employee who unknowingly spreads false information because they trusted an unverified software output.

“Fact-checking rules prevent staff from acting as unwitting perpetuators of hallucinated data.”

“We required our team to verify generated contract dates against source files so no one accidentally passes along false numbers to clients.”