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ChatGPT Allegedly Defamed Norwegian User by Inventing Child Homicide and Imprisonment
- Occurred
- Aug 15, 2024
- Published
- Mar 20, 2025
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In August 2024, ChatGPT is reported to have falsely claimed that Norwegian citizen Arve Hjalmar Holmen had killed his two sons and been sentenced to 21 years in prison. The fabricated response allegedly included specific details about the supposed crime, despite Holmen never being accused or convicted of any offense. The incident prompted a GDPR complaint for defamation and inaccurate personal data.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Arve Hjalmar Holmen
Tags
- Hallucination
- Large language model
- Large language model error
- Defamation
- GDPR
- Norway
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: ChatGPT hallucinated false criminal allegations against an individual, constituting a language model failure with legal consequences.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8