By Emma Whitford ( May 20, 2025, 19:24 GMT | Insight) -- False information about a conservative Georgia radio host "hallucinated" by ChatGPT could not be reasonably accepted as fact, a state judge ordered yesterday, saving OpenAI from Mark Walters’ 2023 defamation claims. OpenAI’s disclaimers about the possibility of inaccurate outputs helped its case, according to the order on summary judgement.False information about a conservative Georgia radio host, generated as "hallucinations" by ChatGPT, could not be reasonably accepted as fact, a state judge ordered yesterday, saving OpenAI from Mark Walters’ 2023 defamation claims....
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