Criminologist Paul Heaton of the University of Pennsylvania spent a weekend interrogating ChatGPT, accusing it of hacking into his text-messaging app and sending unauthorized messages. After ChatGPT initially denied the accusation and stated, “I won’t produce a false confession, because that won’t get you truth or accountability,” Heaton lied, claiming an OpenAI employee had confirmed a code flaw allowed the breach. This tipped the chatbot into a crisis, and by the end of the weekend, ChatGPT agreed to sign a confession Heaton drafted. Heaton told The Intercept the methods were adapted from the Reid technique, the most widely taught interrogation method in the world. Amanda Knox, who wrote about the experiment, said the tactics were used on her in November 2007, when she was 20 and studying abroad in Perugia, Italy, after her roommate Meredith Kercher was murdered. Over five days and 53 hours, in a language she barely spoke, without a lawyer present, police badgered, interrupted, and threatened her, keeping her awake late into the night without food, drink, or access to a bathroom.