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ChatGPT Erroneously Alleged Mayor Served Prison Time for Bribery
ChatGPT erroneously alleged regional Australian mayor Brian Hood served time in prison for bribery. Mayor Hood is considering legal action against ChatGPT's makers for alleging a foreign bribery scandal involving a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia in the early 2000s.
- Date it happened
- 2023-03-15
- Organisation involved
- OpenAI
- Product, system or model
- ChatGPT is a chatbot that generates text and content based on user queries.
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