Norwegian to sue OpenAI: ChatGPT invented that a man is accused of killing his own children
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The chatbot issued a fake story in which the man allegedly killed two sons and received 21 years in prison. The Norwegian has appealed to the court against OpenAI for false information.
A Norwegian man has sued the American research organization OpenAI because ChatGPT, developed by it, invented that he was accused of killing his own children. The chatbot even stated that the father of the murdered children was sentenced to 21 years in prison, writes UNN with reference to Bild.
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Arve Hjalmar Holmen decided to use ChatGPT and asked the artificial intelligence question: "Who is Arve Hjalmar Holmen?"
In response, the chatbot invented a story in which the man allegedly killed two of his sons, aged 7 and 10, and was going to kill a third. The boys, according to artificial intelligence, were "found dead" in a pond near their home in Trondheim, Norway, in December 2020. The chatbot even stated that the father of the murdered children was sentenced to 21 years in prison.
What confused Holmen the most was that the number and gender of his children, as well as his hometown, were correctly named in the chatbot's message. The man turned to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority and demanded that OpenAI be fined.
Experts noted that this is exactly the case when the so-called "hallucinations" occurred, when AI systems generate false information due to lack of data or its incorrect addition. The network forms responses based on possible patterns, without checking their content.
After this incident, ChatGPT updated its model. Now the program checks with current news articles. However, data protection experts warn that "you cannot be absolutely sure that the data has really been completely deleted - unless you retrain the entire model.
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