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"However, that only lasted three days. It now seems that my name has been completely blocked from Copilot. But things have been changing daily, even hourly, for three months."\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Ch4>\u003Cstrong>Prolific Liar\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\u003Cp>This is far from the first time that AI hallucinations have defamed someone. Last year, Meta's \u003Ca href=\"https://quasa.io/media/myths-about-artificial-intelligence-technology\">AI\u003C/a> chatbot accused a Stanford AI researcher of being a terrorist. More recently, Elon Musk's Grok offhandedly claimed that an NBA star was behind a string of vandalism attacks — probably because it misinterpreted joke tweets.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cpicture class=\"image-align-left\">\u003Csource srcset=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-19/mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-15.webp\" type=\"image/webp\">\u003Cimg class=\"image-align-left\" height=\"168\" src=\"https://cdn.quasa.io/photos/foto-19/mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-15.jpeg\" width=\"300\" / alt=\"AI Accuses Journalist of Escaping Psych Ward, Abusing Children and Widows\" loading=\"lazy\">\u003C/picture>These are part of a broader trend of shoddy AIs churning out misinformation — or in some cases, disinformation — but the singling out of individuals makes these cases particularly damaging.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>For Bernklau, the episode has been traumatizing, he told \u003Cem>The Register.\u003C/em> It was a "mixture of shock, horror, and disbelieving laughter," he added. "It was too crazy, too unbelievable, but also too threatening."\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Whether or not Microsoft can be held legally accountable for what its chatbot says is, at this moment\u003Cstrong>,\u003C/strong> up in the air. Ongoing legal battles could potentially set a precedent, such as the case of a man who sued OpenAI after ChatGPT similarly accused him — falsely— of embezzling money. But for now, there's not a lot Bernklau can do.\u003C/p>\n\n\u003Cp>Thank you!\u003Cbr />\nJoin us on social media!\u003Cbr />\nSee you!\u003C/p>","ai-accuses-journalist-of-escaping-psych-ward-abusing-children-and-widows","2024-09-30T20:12:42.000000Z","2024-09-30T10:30:00.000000Z","30.09.2024",{"image":81,"image_webp":82,"thumb":83,"thumb_webp":84},"https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/wXXovkKWg6E6VlFg64Jqg4iSBdQ30nV0fIh290Jb.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/wXXovkKWg6E6VlFg64Jqg4iSBdQ30nV0fIh290Jb.webp","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/wXXovkKWg6E6VlFg64Jqg4iSBdQ30nV0fIh290Jb.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/wXXovkKWg6E6VlFg64Jqg4iSBdQ30nV0fIh290Jb.webp","large",null,1534,0,"en",{"id":46,"title":47,"slug":48,"meta_title":47,"meta_description":91,"meta_keywords":91,"deleted_at":86,"created_at":92,"updated_at":93,"lang":89},"Artificial Intelligence, ai, ml, machine learning, chatgpt, future","2024-09-22T08:08:27.000000Z","2024-09-23T12:49:38.000000Z",[95,111,123,136,149],{"title":96,"description":97,"slug":98,"created_at":99,"publish_at":100,"formatted_created_at":101,"category":102,"links":103,"view_type":108,"video_url":86,"views":109,"likes":88,"lang":89,"comments_count":88,"is_pinned":110},"GitHub’s AI Agent Tsunami: 275 Million Commits a Week, 14 Billion Projected for 2026 — And the Platform Is Starting to Crack","GitHub just hit numbers that would have sounded like science fiction twelve months ago.","github-s-ai-agent-tsunami-275-million-commits-a-week-14-billion-projected-for-2026-and-the-platform-is-starting-to-crack","2026-04-17T17:10:50.000000Z","2026-04-20T11:57:00.000000Z","20.04.2026",{"title":58,"slug":63},{"image":104,"image_webp":105,"thumb":106,"thumb_webp":107},"https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/XZTYmDGdaBEeRqB4Fv56AeOVoRtMa9PgoABzA3uj.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/images/news/XZTYmDGdaBEeRqB4Fv56AeOVoRtMa9PgoABzA3uj.webp","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/XZTYmDGdaBEeRqB4Fv56AeOVoRtMa9PgoABzA3uj.jpg","https://cdn.quasa.io/thumbs/news-thumb/images/news/XZTYmDGdaBEeRqB4Fv56AeOVoRtMa9PgoABzA3uj.webp","small",15,false,{"title":112,"description":113,"slug":114,"created_at":115,"publish_at":116,"formatted_created_at":101,"category":117,"links":118,"view_type":108,"video_url":86,"views":42,"likes":88,"lang":89,"comments_count":88,"is_pinned":110},"Time’s Up for SaaS: Grow Faster or Disappear","The public markets have spoken — and the verdict is brutal. 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