ChatGPT makers threatened with defamation suit for creation of false statement.

[MT]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/06/chatgpt-australia-mayor-lawsuit-lies/

Brian Hood is a whistleblower who was praised for “showing tremendous courage” when he helped expose a worldwide bribery scandal linked to Australia’s National Reserve Bank.
But if you ask ChatGPT about his role in the scandal, you get the opposite version of events.

Rather than heralding Hood’s whistleblowing role, ChatGPT falsely states that Hood himself was convicted of paying bribes to foreign officials, had pleaded guilty to bribery and corruption, and been sentenced to prison.  When Hood found out, he was shocked. Hood, who is now mayor of Hepburn Shire near Melbourne in Australia, said he plans to sue the company behind ChatGPT for telling lies about him, in what could be the first defamation suit of its kind against the artificial intelligence chatbot.

“To be accused of being a criminal — a white-collar criminal — and to have spent time in jail when that’s 180 degrees wrong is extremely damaging to your reputation. Especially bearing in mind that I’m an elected official in local government,” he said in an interview Thursday. “It just reopened old wounds.”

[Neutrion]

Good news! Only pity is, that not some LMBTQ wokeist were targeted, or Gwyneths pussy, because than the issue would fill the headlines for months with Sky News live coverage included.

" Miss Jason Wokeman was falsely accused by AI stating that "it" is a member of a hidden heterofobic network with some dark agenda. She was even accused with citing the Bible so a finnish expert team will be part of the investigation team. This case by far is  the most imminent threat to democracy, and human rights on the planet."

"Gwyneths vagina -according to a study from the university of Newsouthsmoscow- has an an entirely different smell than the advertised product, and many experts claim that its smell can also rapidly change in time on a broad scale. The court case with Gwyneth experts, AI experts and judges with sensitive noses will be broadcasted  live by countless new channels."

[temperance]

Good news! Only pity is, that not some LMBTQ wokeist were targeted, or Gwyneths pussy, because than the issue would fill the headlines for months with Sky News live coverage included.

Tragicomic 

[m98]

It sais a lot about WP to be publishing such technologically illiterate nonesense...

[SiliconWizard]

Good news! Only pity is, that not some LMBTQ wokeist were targeted, or Gwyneths pussy, because than the issue would fill the headlines for months with Sky News live coverage included.

Tragicomic 

True.

But the underlying point still holds.
This raises many concerns regarding IP, personal image, and a lot more.

Of course the answer at this point is: no one should trust any of those chat bots' output, ever.

But the problem is that it still *communicates* something and thus is still being *heard*
It's like any random user of a social network - if they defame someome, even if said user is a "nobody" and has no credibility, it has the potential to harm the defamed person. We all know this.

So the same will happen with AI bots, except probably worse, as people will tend to trust a machine's output more than they trust other humans.