Who Do You Sue When a Robot Lies?

In early 2023, a professor in the United States discovered that ChatGPT had generated a story claiming he had sexually harassed students on a trip — a trip that had never happened, with students who did not exist, in a lawsuit that was entirely fabricated.

He is a real person. The defamation was entirely invented. The story had zero factual basis.

He had no meaningful legal recourse.

This is where we are.