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Incident 506: ChatGPT Allegedly Produced False Accusation of Sexual Harassment

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.

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Alleged: OpenAI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Jonathan Turley.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
506
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2023-03-29
Editors
Sean McGregor
Applied Taxonomies
GMF, MIT

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Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

3.1. False or misleading information

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. Misinformation

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

AI

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Unintentional

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Large Libel Models: ChatGPT-3.5 Erroneously Reporting Supposed Felony Pleas, Complete with Made-Up Media Quotes?+1
ChatGPT sometimes makes up facts. For one law prof, it went too far.
Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why
Large Libel Models: ChatGPT-3.5 Erroneously Reporting Supposed Felony Pleas, Complete with Made-Up Media Quotes?

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

reason.com

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

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

washingtonpost.com

Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why

Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why

arstechnica.com

Large Libel Models: ChatGPT-3.5 Erroneously Reporting Supposed Felony Pleas, Complete with Made-Up Media Quotes?
reason.com · 2023

[UPDATE: My apologies for misattributing this at first to ChatGPT-4. I had accessed the OpenAI query portal through a page focusing on ChatGPT-4 (https://openai.com/product/gpt-4) and then clicking on "Try on ChatGPT Plus," which is why I h…

ChatGPT sometimes makes up facts. For one law prof, it went too far.
washingtonpost.com · 2023

One night last week, the law professor Jonathan Turley got a troubling email. As part of a research study, a fellow lawyer in California had asked the AI chatbot ChatGPT to generate a list of legal scholars who had sexually harassed someone…

Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why
arstechnica.com · 2024

OpenAI's ChatGPT is more than just an AI language model with a fancy interface. It's a system consisting of a stack of AI models and content filters that make sure its outputs don't embarrass OpenAI or get the company into legal trouble whe…

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