That was the question criminologist Paul Heaton was trying to answer, when he spent a weekend interrogating a chatbot. But then Heaton began running the playbook he’d spent years studying. It even said: “I won’t produce a false confession, because that won’t get you truth or accountability.” By the end of the weekend, ChatGPT agreed to sign a confession Heaton had drafted for it. He said that the methods he used to induce ChatGPT into a false confession were adapted from the Reid technique, the most widely taught interrogation method in the world.