It turns out that at least the early iterations of AI aren’t all that I. Or at least they’re not I enough to know not to make up false and libelous claims about actual people that can do real world damage to them and their reputations.

Fredy Riehl, one of the owners of Ammoland, was doing some research recently for a post. He asked the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to summarize a lawsuit, Second Amendment Foundation v. Bob Ferguson. That’s SAF’s challenge to Washington State’s Attorney General for his office’s targeting and harassment of the Evergreen State-based gun rights organization.

But as Riehl told TTAG, the chatty ChatGPT program gave him more than he bargained for. It told him that SAF had sued Mark Walters, the host of Armed American Radio, for allegedly embezzling millions of dollars, misappropriating funds, an