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Artificial intelligence as a product description implies that it is the equivalent of human intelligence. It is no such thing. A.I. cannot create or imagine or produce anything worthwhile that is not dictated by the minds of the programmers. When those minds are perverted, then A.I. can become a tool for egregious slander. As pointed out in the following article (HERE), the worst part is that there is, at this point, no recourse to justice, as in the correction and dissemination of the fact that it was wrong. Eventually, and the sooner the better, the platforms featuring so-called A.I. must be the target of appropriate lawsuits…
ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real law prof as the accused
The AI chatbot can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence
By Pranshu Verma and
April 5, 2023 at 2:07 p.m. EDT
One night last week, the law professor Jonathan Turley got a troubling email. As part of a research study, a fellow lawyer in California had asked the AI chatbot ChatGPT to generate a list of legal scholars who had sexually harassed someone. Turley’s name was on the list.
The chatbot, created by OpenAI, said Turley had made sexually suggestive comments and attempted to touch a student while on a class trip to Alaska, citing a March 2018 article in The Washington Post as the source of the information. The problem: No such article existed. There had never been a class trip to Alaska. And Turley said he’d never been accused of harassing a student.
Read the whole article HERE