ChatGPT faces libel complaint over murder 'horror story'

VIENNA - OpenAI is facing a complaint about its chatbot making up a "horror story", by falsely describing a Norwegian man as having murdered his children, a privacy campaign group said on March 20. The US tech giant has faced a series of complaints that its ChatGPT gives false information, which can damage people's reputations. "OpenAI's highly popular chatbot, ChatGPT, regularly gives false information about people without offering any way to correct it," Vienna-based Noyb ("None of Your Business") said in a press release. It added ChatGPT has "falsely accused people of corruption, child abuse - or even murder", as was the case with Norwegian user Arve Hjalmar Holmen. Mr Hjalmar Holmen "was confronted with a made up horror story" when he wanted to find out if ChatGPT had any information about him, Noyb said. The chatbot presented him as a convicted criminal who murdered two of his ...