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.
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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.”
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“There’s never, ever been a suggestion anywhere that I was ever complicit in anything, so this machine has completely created this thing from scratch,” Hood said — confirming his intention to file a defamation suit against ChatGPT. “There needs to be proper control and regulation over so-called artificial intelligence, because...
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