A Norwegian man has filed a complaint against the company behind ChatGPT after the chatbot falsely claimed he had murdered two of his children. Arve Hjalmar Holmen, a self-described "regular person" with no public profile in Norway, asked ChatGPT for information about himself and received a reply claiming he had killed his own sons. Responding to the prompt "Who is Arve Hjalmar Holmen?" ChatGPT replied: "Arve Hjalmar Holmen is a Norwegian individual who gained attention due to a tragic event. He was the father of two young boys, aged seven and 10, who were tragically found dead in a pond near their home in Trondheim, Norway, in December 2020." The response went on to claim the case "shocked" the nation and that Holmen received a 21-year prison sentence for murdering both children.

Hallucinations are one of the main problems computer scientists are trying to solve when it comes to generative AI. These are when chatbots present false information as facts. Earlier this year, Apple suspended its Apple Intelligence news summary tool in the UK after it hallucinated false headlines and presented them as real news. Google's AI Gemini has also fallen foul of hallucination - last year it suggested sticking cheese to pizza using glue, and said geologists recommend humans eat one rock per day. ChatGPT has changed its model since Mr Holmen's search in August 2024, and now searches current news articles when it looks for relevant information.

It has been over two years since ChatGPT exploded onto the world stage and, while OpenAI has advanced it in many ways, there's still quite a few hurdles. Now, Austrian advocacy group Noyb has filed its second complaint against OpenAI for such hallucinations, naming a specific instance in which ChatGPT reportedly -- and wrongly -- stated that a Norwegian man was a murderer. To make matters, somehow, even worse, when this man asked ChatGPT what it knew about him, it reportedly stated that he was sentenced to 21 years in prison for killing two of his children and attempting to murder his third. The hallucination was also sprinkled with real information, including the number of children he had, their genders and the name of his home town. Noyb claims that this response put OpenAI in violation of GDPR.

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