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ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed
- Occurred
- Apr 25, 2026
- Published
- Apr 25, 2026
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
You might spend your Saturday mornings sipping coffee, attending a kids' soccer game, or just recovering from a tough week at work. Not Paul Heaton. He recently spent a weekend persuading ChatGPT to confess to a crime it didn't commit. "W ... (report_number: 7165)
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: ChatGPT was manipulated into falsely confessing to a crime, demonstrating a language model failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8