AI Defamation and Hallucination Liability
The New Frontier of Defamation Law # Courts are now testing what attorneys describe as a “new frontier of defamation law” as AI systems increasingly generate false, damaging statements about real people. When ChatGPT falsely accused a radio host of embezzlement, when Bing confused a veteran with a convicted terrorist, when Meta AI claimed a conservative activist participated in the January 6 riot, these weren’t glitches. They represent a fundamental challenge to defamation law built on human publishers and human intent.