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NLJ this week: Electric dreams, AI confabulations & defamation law

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21 July 2023
Issue: 8034 / Categories: Legal News , Cyber , Technology , Libel , Defamation , Artificial intelligence
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Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are known to ‘hallucinate’, making up false information or confabulating to fill gaps in their knowledge. But who is responsible in law for any libel or harm caused as a result? In this week’s NLJ, Chloe Flascher, associate at Withers, addresses this fascinating conundrum.

The lies and dreams of machines can cause real world risks. As Flascher writes: ‘ChatGPT recently invented a sexual harassment scandal, naming a real law professor as the accused (citing a fake Washington Post article as evidence in support of the allegation). Not only did no such article exist, but the real professor had never been accused of harassing a student, nor had he been present on the trip to Alaska described by the chatbot during which the purported sexual harassment took place.’

Flascher explores potential defamatory scenarios arising from generative AI, and analyses how this might be dealt with under current laws—read the full article here.
Issue: 8034 / Categories: Legal News , Cyber , Technology , Libel , Defamation , Artificial intelligence
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