ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed
A renown criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions.
Radley Balko
Radley Balko writes about criminal justice, the drug war, and civil liberties. He is author of the books “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces” and, with Tucker Carrington, “The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South.” He publishes the newsletter The Watch.
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