Ghosted by ChatGPT: How I was first defamed and then deleted by AI

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Look at what happened to Jonathan Turley.

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Ghosted by ChatGPT:  How I was first defamed and then deleted by AI

 

[...] Thus far, the ghosting is limited to ChatGPT sites, but the controversy highlights a novel political and legal question in the brave new world of AI.

 

My path toward cyber-erasure began with a bizarre and entirely fabricated account by ChatGPT.  As I wrote at the time, ChatGPT falsely reported that there had been a claim of sexual harassment against me (which there never was) based on something that supposedly happened on a 2018 trip with law students to Alaska (which never occurred), while I was on the faculty of Georgetown Law (where I have never taught).

 

In support of its false and defamatory claim, ChatGPT cited a Washington Post article that had never been written and quoted from a statement that had never been issued by the newspaper.  The Washington Post investigated the false story and discovered that another AI program, "Microsoft's Bing, which is powered by GPT-4, repeated the false claim about Turley."

 

Although some of those defamed in this manner chose to sue these companies for defamatory AI reports, I did not.  I assumed that the company, which has never reached out to me, would correct the problem.

And it did, in a manner of speaking — apparently by digitally erasing me, at least to some extent.  In some algorithmic universe, the logic is simple that there is no false story if there is no discussion of the individual.  [...]

 

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5039749-chatgpt-ghosted-turley/