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Translated by: Ideal Zhubi
- March 20 2025 23: 24
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A Norwegian citizen has filed a complaint against the artificial intelligence virtual robot (ChatGPT), after it mistakenly wrote that he was responsible for the murder of his two sons and said that he had been sentenced to 21 years in prison, writes the BBC.
Arve Hjalmar Holmen has contacted the Norwegian Data Protection Authority and asked it to sue Open AI, the creator of the ChatGPT virtual bot.
This is the latest example of so-called "hallucinations", where the artificial intelligence system provides false information and presents it as facts.
Holmen said that this "hallucination" has greatly damaged him.
"Some people think there's no smoke without fire - the fact that someone could read this and believe it as true scares me," he said.
Holmen had received false information after using ChatGPT to ask the question "Who is Arve Hjalmar Holmen?".
In return, the robot's response to him was that "Arve Hjalmar Holmen is a Norwegian individual who has received attention after a tragic case. He was the father of two boys, ages 7 and 10, who were found dead near their home in Trondheim, Norway in December 2020."
Digital rights group Noyb, which filed the complaint on his behalf, said ChatGPT's response to Holmen was defamatory and violated European data protection rules regarding the accuracy of personal data.
Noyb said in her complaint that Holmen "has not been charged with or convicted of any crime and is an upstanding citizen."
ChatGPT always has a message acknowledging that it may make mistakes, which is why it recommends users check important information.
According to the Noyb group, this is insufficient.
"You can't spread incorrect information and at the end add a little disclaimer saying that everything you say may not be true," said Noyb's lawyer, Joakim Söderberg.
