Incident #506·Misinformation

ChatGPT Allegedly Produced False Accusation of Sexual Harassment

March 29, 20233 reportsView on AIID

Description

A lawyer in California asked the AI chatbot ChatGPT to generate a list of legal scholars who had sexually harassed someone. The chatbot produced a false story of Professor Jonathan Turley sexually harassing a student on a class trip.

Actors

Alleged Deployers

openai

Alleged Developers

openai

Harmed Parties

jonathan-turley

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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Source Reports(3 total)

ChatGPT sometimes makes up facts. For one law prof, it went too far.

washingtonpost.com· Apr 2023

Large Libel Models: ChatGPT-3.5 Erroneously Reporting Supposed Felony Pleas, Complete with Made-Up Media Quotes?

reason.com· Mar 2023