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Libel lawyer Paul Tweed says AI chatbots are defaming his clients

Tweed, who made his name as defamation lawyer to the stars, said that Irish courts could become a forum for major litigation over AI misinformation

Paul Tweed: “There is a very real risk of dissemination of totally unfounded and extremely harmful allegations”. Picture: Stephen Davison

People are being seriously defamed by answers from artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, according to Paul Tweed, the leading libel and privacy lawyer.

Tweed said that clients have already begun to contact him “in relation to misinformation and other related issues” from AI.

Tweed said that with so many big tech firms already using Dublin for European headquarters, this raised the possibility that Irish courts could become a forum for major, and complicated, litigation over AI ...