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WTF?! Even as generative AI becomes more widespread, the systems remain prone to hallucinations. Advising people to put glue on pizza and eat rocks is one thing, but ChatGPT falsely telling a man he had spent 21 years in prison for killing his two sons is a lot more serious.
Norwegian national Arve Hjalmar Holmen contacted the Norwegian Data Protection Authority after he decided to see what ChatGPT knew about him.
The chatbot responded in its usual confident manner, falsely stating that Holmen had murdered two of his sons and attempted to kill his third son. It added that he was sentenced to 21 years in prison for these fake crimes.
While the story was entirely fabricated, there were elements of Holmen's life that ChatGPT got right, including the number and gender of his children, their approximate ages, and the name of his hometown, making the false claims about murder all the more sinister.
Holmen says he has never been accused nor convicted of any crime and is a conscientious citizen.
Holmen contacted privacy rights group Noyb about the hallucination. It carried out research to ensure ChatGPT wasn't getting Holmen mixed up with someone else, possibly with a similar name. The group also checked newspaper archives, but there was nothing obvious to suggest why the chatbot was making up this gruesome tale.
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