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Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 week 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] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you say more accurate but all I see is a very roundabout way of saying fucking wrong all the goddamn time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it produces things that appear to be cohesive sentences. there is no reason to assign correctness to a sentence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

maybe you should tell that to the companies that shove it in every crevice of every website and app. why is it on search results? why is it summarizing emails? why is it literally doing anything? it's useless. actually it's less than useless. it's misleading and harmful. and the companies should be held liable for it.