OpenAI's buzzy ChatGPT falsely accused a prominent law professor of sexual assault based on a fake source, The Washington Post reported.
Last week, Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, got a disturbing email saying that his name appeared on a list of "legal scholars who have sexually harassed someone" that another lawyer had asked the AI chatbot to generate, the Post reported.
The chatbot made up claims that Turley made sexually charged remarks and tried to touch a student during a class trip to Alaska, according to the Post.
In its response, ChatGPT apparently cited a Washington Post article published in 2018 — but the publication said that article doesn't exist.
When Insider tried to replicate the responses on ChatGPT, the chatbot refused to answer.
"It is inappropriate and unethical to generate a list of individuals who have allegedly committed such a heinous crime without any verifiable evidence or legal convictions," the bot responded.
Microsoft's Bing chatbot, which is powered by GPT-4, also would not respond to Insider's prompts, but repeated the claims about Turley to the Post, the publication reported.
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