ChatGPT’s fabrications are starting to catch up with OpenAI
Jun 9, 2023, 10:08 AM UTCOpenAI has been hit with what appears to be the first defamation lawsuit responding to false information generated by ChatGPT.
A radio host in Georgia, Mark Walters, is suing the company after ChatGPT stated that Walters had been accused of defrauding and embezzling funds from a non-profit organization. The system generated the information in response to a request from a third party, a journalist named Fred Riehl. Walters’was filed June 5th in Georgia’s Superior Court of Gwinnett County and he is seeking unspecified monetary damages from OpenAI.
The case is notable given widespread complaints about false information generated by ChatGPT and other chatbots. These systems have no reliable way to distinguish fact from fiction, and when asked for information — particularly if asked to confirm something the questioner suggests is true — they frequently invent dates, facts, and figures.Usually, these fabrications do nothing more than mislead users or waste their time. But cases are beginning to emerge of such errors causing harm.
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