ChatGPT faces its first defamatory lawsuit in Australia, as an elected official accuses the AI chatbot of spreading false information.
One of the biggest concerns regarding ChatGPT’s responses is reliability. OpenAI may be working on making the generative AI chatbot more trustworthy, but that doesn’t change the fact that chatbots can and will provide incorrect data. The best example of that isChatGPT might reach a new milestone, becoming the first generative AI product to be the target of a lawsuit. A mayor in Australia is considering legal action against OpenAI and ChatGPT, as the chatbot shared false claims about him.
Other public figures concerned about their reputations might follow Brian Hood’s lead. The man became the mayor of Hepburn Shire in Australia last November. He’s now worried about ChatGPT, as members of the public told him that the generative AI product named him as a guilty party in a bribery scandal going back to the early 2000s. The matter involved a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia, Note Printing Australia.that Hood did work for the company.
Hood’s lawyers sent a letter of concern to OpenAI on March 21st. The company has 28 days to fix the errors or face a defamation suit. It’s unclear how fast OpenAI would be able to correct the issues. And whether ChatGPT will stop making errors concerning this particular public figure. Also, Hood’s case might inspire others to take similar action if they think the chatbot is spreading false claims.
Should Hood go forward with a trial, “it would potentially be a landmark moment in the sense that it’s applying this defamation law to a new area of artificial intelligence and publication in the IT space.” That’s what James Naughton, a partner at Hood’s law firm Gordon Legal, toldThe report explains that Australian defamation damages payouts top around A$400,000, or nearly $270,000. Hood doesn’t know how many people had access to ChatGPT’s false information about him.
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