The creator of ChatGPT, OpenAI, is facing a defamation action from an Australian mayor who alleges that the artificial intelligence platform falsely reported that he had served time in prison for bribery. After being questioned about the allegations made by ChatGPT, the lawmaker allegedly stated that he was worried about his reputation.
The AI platform inferred that Brian Hood was implicated in the early 2000s overseas bribery scandal involving a Reserve Bank of Australia subsidiary. The Hepburn Shire mayor, Brian Hood, asked OpenAI to alter the data that the AI platform used to reflect. Hood's lawyers claim that he reported the payment of bribes to foreign authorities in order to gain currency printing contracts while employed by the bank's subsidiary, Note Printing Australia. The mayor was never put on trial for a crime.
The lawyers also claimed that on March 21, they had written OpenAI, ChatGPT's owner, expressing their concerns.By following the instructions in the letter, OpenAI has 28 days to update any inaccurate information about their customers or risk being sued for defamation.
According to James Naughton, a lawyer at Hood's law company Gordon Legal, "it would potentially be a landmark event in that it's extending this defamation legislation to a new area of artificial intelligence and publication in the IT sector."
Being an elected person, his reputation is essential to his job, according to Naughton. Hood used the open record to expose corporate wrongdoing, saying, "So it matters to him if individuals in his neighbourhood are accessing this stuff."
If the complaint is brought, it will be the first of its kind against ChatGPT, which has received a lot of attention in recent months. Because of potential privacy and security issues, some nations have even decided to outright prohibit the AI platform.
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