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Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A Norwegian man said he was horrified to discover that ChatGPT outputs had falsely accused him of murdering his own children.

According to a complaint filed Thursday by European Union digital rights advocates Noyb, Arve Hjalmar Holmen decided to see what information ChatGPT might provide if a user searched his name. He was shocked when ChatGPT responded with outputs falsely claiming that he was sentenced to 21 years in prison as "a convicted criminal who murdered two of his children and attempted to murder his third son," a Noyb press release said.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (39 children)

I have this gun machine that shoots in all directions randomly. I can't predict it, so I can't stop it from shooting you. So sorry. It's uncontrollable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (18 children)

Maybe people need to learn that AI hallucinates

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

So then what's the use of the program if it uses a bunch of energy to just make shit up?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

sometimes you need a machine that makes things up according to a given specification.

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