A Norwegian man has filed a complaint after artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT falsely claimed he was convicted of murdering two of his children.
Arve Hjalmar Holmen was given the false information after he used ChatGPT to ask if it had any information about him.
The response he got back included: "Arve Hjalmar Holmen is a Norwegian individual who gained attention due to a tragic event.
"He was the father of two young boys, aged 7 and 10, who were tragically found dead in a pond near their home in Trondheim, Norway, in December 2020."
However, not all the details were made up.
The number and the gender of his children were correct, as well as his hometown, suggesting it did have some accurate information about him.
Digital rights group Noyb, which filed the complaint to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority on his behalf, claimed the answer ChatGPT gave him was defamatory and breaks European data protection rules.
They said Mr Holmen "has never been accused nor convicted of any crime and is a conscientious citizen".
ChatGPT presents users with a disclaimer at the bottom of its main interface that says the chatbot may produce false results and to "check important info".
But Noyb data protection lawyer Joakim Söderberg said that is insufficient.
"You can't just spread false information and in the end add a small disclaimer saying that everything you said may just not be true," Mr Söderberg said in a statement.
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