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Shop NowThe looming era of Artificial Intelligence is upon us and its dangers are numerous as one George Washington University law professor will tell you.
Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, is warnings all who will listen about the dangers of artificial intelligence (AI). Turley was falsely accused of sexual harassment by an online bot ChatGPT. The AI bot even created its own evidence by citing a fabricated article that supported the allegation.
ChatGPT falsely accuses Jonathan Turley of sexual harassment, concocts fake WaPo story to support allegation https://t.co/X85j7QiWum
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 10, 2023
As a Fox News contributor, Turley has been outspoken about the pitfalls of artificial intelligence. He has publicly expressed concerns about the disinformation dangers associated with the latest AI chatbot, ChatGPT.
Turley isn’t the only one that AI has gone after. Last week, a UCLA professor notified Turley that his name appeared in a search while the UCLA professor was researching ChatGPT. The AI Bot was asked to come up with “five examples” of “sexual harassment” by U.S. law professors with “quotes from relevant newspaper articles” to support it.
Professor Jonthan Turley was falsely accused of sexual harassment by ChatGPT.
The AI-bot cited a news article that had never been written to back these claims.
It comes amid fears that ChatGPT may help drive a spread of misinformation.https://t.co/jBya0Y2CKp— Dane (@UltraDane) April 10, 2023
“Five professors came up, three of those stories were clearly false, including my own,” Turley explained in an interview on “The Story” on Fox News. “What was really menacing about this incident is that the AI system made up a Washington Post story and then made up a quote from that story and said that there was this allegation of harassment on a trip with students to Alaska. That trip never occurred. I’ve never gone on any trip with law students of any kind. It had me teaching at the wrong school, and I’ve never been accused of sexual harassment.”
The constitutional legal scholar revealed that ChatGPT defamed him by fabricating a 2018 incident. The fabricated story accused Turley of sexual harassment by a former female student while on a school trip to Alaska.
The robot even made up quotes from a phony Washington Post article that claimed Turley made “sexually suggestive comments” and “attempted to touch her in a sexual manner.”
Now Bing is *also* claiming Turley was accused of sexually harassing a student on a class trip in 2018. It cites as a source for this claim Turley's own USA Today op-ed about the false claim by ChatGPT, along with several other aggregations of his op-ed. pic.twitter.com/p7NA45kHyD
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) April 5, 2023
“You had an AI system that made up entirely the story, but actually made up the cited article and the quote,” Turley said in a different interview on “America Reports.” “And when the Washington Post looked at it, they were mystified and said we can’t even figure out how an AI would come up with this because there’s not even a story we can find that seems at all relevant or could be referenced.”
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot whose core function is to mimic a human in conversation. ChatGPT has been used by thousands around the world to write emails, debug computer programs, conduct research, write articles, and more.
