ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed ^37.2%

The Intercept - By Radley Balko - 4/23/2026, 10:00 AM

Negativity Bias 17.3% - Appeal to Authority 12.8% - Anecdotal 11.6%

You might spend your Saturday mornings sipping coffee, attending a kids’ soccer game, or just recovering from a tough week at work. Not Paul Heaton. He recently spent a weekend persuading ChatGPT to confess to a crime it didn’t commit. “We know a lot now about the sort of interrogation techniques that lead to false confessions,” said... more