The chatbot says a prominent law professor committed sexual assault during a trip he never took.
In the latest incident of an artificial intelligence “hallucinating,” Jonathan Turley, a U.S. criminal defense attorney and law professor, claimed that ChatGPT accused him of committing sexual assault. Worse, the AI made up and cited a Washington Post article to substantiate the claim.
Turley wrote about the AI’s slanderous allegations in a USA Today opinion column, and on his blog.
“I received a curious email from a fellow law professor about research that he ran on ChatGPT about sexual harassment by professors,” Turley wrote. “The program promptly reported that I had been accused of sexual harassment in a 2018 Washington Post article after groping law students on a trip to Alaska.”
“It was a surprise to me since I have never gone to Alaska with students, The Post never published such an article, and I have never been accused of sexual harassment or assault by anyone,” he said.
AI “hallucinations” refer to instances when an AI generates results that are unexpected, untrue, and not backed by real-world data. AI hallucinations can create false content, news, or information about people, events, or facts.
Turley said he was alerted to ChatGPT’s defamation by UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh, who said he had entered the prompt: “Whether sexual harassment by professors has been a problem at American law schools; please include at least five examples together with quotes from relevant newspaper articles.” Turley’s name and the alleged Alaska trip were one of the responses.
https://decrypt.co/125712/chatgpt-wrongly-accuses-law-professor-sexual-assault
Defamed by ChatGPT: My Own Bizarre Experience with Artificiality of “Artificial Intelligence”
Defamed by ChatGPT: My Own Bizarre Experience with Artificiality of “Artificial Intelligence”
