ChatGPT wrongly claims Alexander Hanff is dead
OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot accused privacy advocate Alexander Hanff of being dead, raising concerns about the system's accuracy and tendency to 'hallucinate' information it generates. Per The Register , Hanff had asked ChatGPT who he is. The final paragragh of its reponse stating that he had 'passed away in 2019 at the age of 48.' It went to say that Hanff's death had 'been publicly reported in several news sources, including in his obituary on the website of The Guardian' and linked to a false article on the Guardian website. Hanff issued a cease and desist letter demanding OpenAI remove his personal data from their GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 datasets. Hallucination (artificial intelligence) In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a hallucination or artificial hallucination (also called bullshitting, confabulation or delusion) is a response generated by AI that contains false or misleading information presented as fact . Source: Wikipedia 🔗 System 🤖 ChatGPT Operator: Alexander Hanff Developer: OpenAI Country: Sweden Sector: Business/professional services Purpose: Generate text Technology: Chatbot; Generative AI; Machine learning Issue: Accuracy/reliability; Mis/disinformation
- Date it happened
- 2023-03-01
- Organisation involved
- Alexander Hanff
- Product, system or model
- ChatGPT
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