"Defamed By ChatGPT": US Law Professor Claims AI Chatbot Falsely Accused Him Of Sexual Assault
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Mr Truley also noted that ChatGPT wasn't the only bot who made the false claim. According to him, Microsoft's Bing Chatbot also repeatedly the baseless claims.
OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT falsely accused a US law professor by including him in a generated list of legal scholars who had sexually harassed someone. In a series of Twitter posts, Professor Jonathan Turley from George Washington University claimed that he was falsely accused by ChatGPT of assaulting students on a trip he "never took" while working at a school he "never taught at". ...I learned that ChatGPT falsely reported on a claim of sexual harassment that was never made against me on a trip that never occurred while I was on a faculty where I never taught. ChapGPT relied on a cited Post article that was never written and quotes a statement that was…
"ChapGPT relied on a cited Post article that was never written and quotes a statement that was never made by the newspaper," Mr Turley wrote.
Separately, in a blog post, the professor claimed that as part of a study, a lawyer had reportedly asked the AI chatbot to generate a list of legal scholars who had committed sexual harassment. ChatGPTreturned a list that included Mr Turley's name, falsely accusing him of making sexually suggestive comments and attempting to touch a student during a class trip to Alaska, citing a fabricated article in the Post that it said was from 2018.
