ChatGPT accused of saying an innocent man murdered his children
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Summary
Privacy advocacy group Noyb has filed a complaint against AI firm OpenAI on behalf of a Norwegian man, Arve Hjalmar Holmen, who it says was falsely identified by ChatGPT as a convicted child murderer.
The complaint, filed with Norwegian data protection authority Datatilsynet, accuses OpenAI of violating GDPR regulations with the false output, and is seeking a fine, removal of the information, and an improvement of OpenAI’s model to avoid similar occurrences in future.
OpenAI has recently come under fire for failures to fact-check its large language model, and to allow users a right to rectify false or inaccurate information.
This is Noyb’s second complaint regarding ChatGPT, having previously filed against the company in April 2024 on behalf of a public figure whose date of birth was inaccurately reported by the tool.
In that case, Noyb took issue with OpenAI’s claim that erroneous data could only be blocked, and not corrected.