Incident #464·Misinformation

ChatGPT Provided Non-Existent Citations and Links when Prompted by Users

November 30, 20225 reportsView on AIID

Description

When prompted about providing references, ChatGPT was reportedly generating non-existent but convincing-looking citations and links, which is also known as "hallucination".

Actors

Alleged Deployers

openai

Alleged Developers

openai

Harmed Parties

chatgpt-users

Classification

Risk Domain

Misinformation

Risk Subdomain

3.1. False or misleading information

MIT Risk Profile

AIUnintentionalPost-deployment

Source

Databaseaiid

LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0

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