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ChatGPT Allegedly Produced False Accusation of Sexual Harassment
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.
- Date it happened
- 2023-03-29
- Organisation involved
- OpenAI
- Product, system or model
- ChatGPT is a natural language processing chatbot driven by generative AI technology that outputs text in response to user prompts/queries.
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