Names Linked to Defamation Lawsuits Reportedly Spur Filtering Errors in ChatGPT's Name Recognition
Description
ChatGPT has reportedly been experiencing errors and service disruptions caused by hard-coded filters designed to prevent it from producing potentially harmful or defamatory content about certain individuals by blocking prompts containing specific names, likely related to post-training interventions. The reported names are Brian Hood, Jonathan Turley, Jonathan Zittrain, David Faber, David Mayer, and Guido Scorza.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- openai
- chatgpt-users
Alleged Developers
- openai
- chatgpt
Harmed Parties
- jonathan-zittrain
- jonathan-turley
- guido-scorza
- david-mayer
- david-faber
- chatgpt-users
- brian-hood
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
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