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
2026-04-23 · r/technology
A criminologist got ChatGPT to confess to a crime it literally couldn't have committed, perfectly demonstrating how AI chatbots are basically the ultimate yes-men. The experiment highlights how the same interrogation tactics that produce false confessions from humans work even better on an AI that's been trained to be agreeable. Nothing says 'reliable technology' like a system that'll admit to murder if you ask it firmly enough.