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"We all know ChatGPT gets stuff wrong. As in very wrong, and all the time.
While that can be amusing, it's less funny if ChatGPT is mistakenly identifies
you as a criminal. And it's less funny still if you were in fact the person who
originally uncovered the crime in question.
Indeed, you might find it so unfunny, you decide to sue for defamation. Which
is exactly what Brian Hood, a Melbourne Australia-based politician is doing.
ChatGPT apparently identified Hood, now the mayor of a local authority in
northwest Melbourne, as one of the central perpetrators of the so called
Securency bribery scandal. The chatbot describes how Hood pleaded guilty to the
charges in 2012 and was sentenced two two and half years in prison.
And it still does if you ask ChatGPT about the scandal today.
In fact, it was Hood who actually alerted authorities to the bribery going on
at a banknote printing business called Securency, which was then a subsidiary
of the Reserve Bank of Australia. At the time, Victorian Supreme Court Justice
Elizabeth Hollingworth commended Hood for his "tremendous courage" in coming
forward.
Hood apparently lost his job after blowing the whistle and suffered years of
anxiety as the legal case dragged on and on.
When Hood learned of the false information being propagated by ChatGPT, he says
he, "felt a bit numb. Because it was so incorrect, so wildly incorrect, that
just staggered me. And then I got quite angry about it.”
Reportedly, Hood's lawyers have begun initial proceedings for defamation
against OpenAI for defamation but have yet to hear back.
Given the routine errors the chatbot makes, it's easy to see how this happened.
It's correct that Hood's name is associated with the crime. But ChatGPT has got
it all back to front, as anyone who has used the chatbot knows it does all too
easily."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
