ChatGPT-Powered Bing Sued for Libel Over Its AI-Induced Hallucinations

Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Reason.com:When people search for Jeffery Battle in Bing, they get the following (at least sometimes; this is the output of a search that I ran Tuesday): Jeffrey Battle, also known as The Aerospace Professor, is the President and CEO of Battle Enterprises, LLC, and its subsidiary The Aerospace Professor Company... Battle was sentenced to eighteen years in prison after pleading guilty to seditious conspiracy and levying war against the United States... But it turns out that this combines facts about two separate people with similar names: (1) Jeffery Battle, who is indeed apparently a veteran, businessman, and adjunct professor, and (2) Jeffrey Leon Battle, who was convicted of trying to join the Taliban shortly after 9/11. The two have nothing in common other than their similar names. The Aerospace Professor did not plead guilty to seditious conspiracy.... [T]o my knowledge, this connection was entirely made up out of whole cloth by Bing's summarization feature (which is apparently based on ChatGPT); I know of no other site that actually makes any such connection (which I stress again is an entirely factually unfounded connection). Battle is now suing Microsoft for libel over this...

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