ChatGPT accuses law professor of sexual harassment
George Washington university law professor Jonathan Turley was falsely accused by ChatGPT of sexually assaulting students on educational trips to Alaska. ChatGPT had been asked by UCLA's Eugene Volokh to describe scandals involving American law professors being accused of sexual harassment and to cite media sources. To support its case, the model cited a non-existent Washington Post article. The accusation was later repeated by Microsoft's Bing GPT-4 -powered search chat. However, in an USA Today editorial Jonathan Turley said he had never been to Alaska with students, the Post article never existed, and he had 'never been accused of sexual harassment or assault by anyone.' The incident prompted commentators to question the accuracy and reliability of ChatGPT. It also prompted legal experts to discuss the benefits and risks of using defamation as a defence against inaccurate and damaging accusations made by systems like ChatGPT. System 🤖 ChatGPT Operator: OpenAI; Microsoft Developer: OpenAI; Microsoft Country: USA Sector: Multiple; Research/academia Purpose: Provide information, communicate Technology: Chatbot; Generative AI; Machine learning Issue: Accountability; Accuracy/reliability; Defamation; Mis/disinformation
- Date it happened
- 2023-04-01
- Organisation involved
- OpenAI; Microsoft
- Product, system or model
- ChatGPT
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