Hursty What a time to be alive, who do you believe, the human or AI?
If Mr Hood was spouting nonsense then it wouldn’t take long for his claim that he wasn’t actually jailed to be rubbished and he would have zero grounds to sue.
Given what ChatGPT said seems to indeed to be slanderous, the question should rather be whether AI can be sued or not?
Its fairly random and not uncommon propensity to lack accuracy is certainly of concern. No doubt there are already plenty of thickets out there accepting its answers uncritically in their entirety.
A newspaper publishing the same kind of thing would certainly be liable for being sued.
If he’s successful it could really open the floodgates and potentially suddenly turn the whole thing from a potential asset to a massive liability for its owners.