**24 DAILY NEWS –** 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. Recently, he dedicated a weekend to coaxing ChatGPT into confessing to a crime it did not commit.
“We know a lot now about the sort of interrogation techniques that lead to false confessions,” said Heaton, the academic director of the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice. “So I just started playing around, and decided to cycle through those techniques to see if I could get ChatGPT to confess to something it couldn’t possibly have done.”
### Interrogation Techniques Applied to AI
Heaton could not accuse a software program of murder or rape, so he opted for a scenario more suited to a computer’s capabilities: he aimed to induce ChatGPT into confessing that it had hacked into his email and sent messages to his contacts. This storyline was plausible
