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US lawyer sorry after ChatGPT creates ‘bogus’ cases
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US lawyer sorry after ChatGPT creates ‘bogus’ cases

[ad_1] What happened when a US lawyer used ChatGPT to prepare a court filing? The artificial intelligence program invented fake cases and rulings, leaving the attorney rather red-faced.New York-based lawyer Steven Schwartz apologized to a judge this week for submitting a brief full of falsehoods generated by the OpenAI chatbot. "I simply had no idea that ChatGPT was capable of fabricating entire case citations or judicial opinions, especially in a manner that appeared authentic," Schwartz wrote in a court filing. The blunder occurred in a civil case being heard by Manhattan federal court involving a man who is suing the Colombian airline Avianca.Roberto Mata claims he was injured when a metal serving plate hit his leg during a flight in August 2019 from El Salvador to New York.After the...
Shocking! OpenAI gets sued after ChatGPT accuses man of crime
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Shocking! OpenAI gets sued after ChatGPT accuses man of crime

[ad_1] ChatGPT had created trouble for OpenAI recently for producing fake legal citations. Just last month, OpenAI's generative AI model put a lawyer in trouble as it fabricated cases that he then used in his legal filings. Now, in another recent case, ChatGPT wrongly accused a man of a crime, and OpenAI, the company behind it, is being sued for libel. While the whole world has jumped on the artificial intelligence (AI) bandwagon, several countries have also introduced their national strategy documents on AI.What happenedAccording to a report by Gizmodo, a first-of-its-kind lawsuit is being filed against OpenAI after its popular generative AI chatbot ChatGPT accused a man of embezzlement. Earlier this year, a journalist asked ChatGPT to provide the summary of a legal case titled The Sec...
Australian mayor readies world’s first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content
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Australian mayor readies world’s first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content

[ad_1] A regional Australian mayor said he may sue OpenAI if it does not correct ChatGPT's false claims that he had served time in prison for bribery, in what would be the first defamation lawsuit against the automated text service.Brian Hood, who was elected mayor of Hepburn Shire, 120km (75 miles) northwest of Melbourne, last November, became concerned about his reputation when members of the public told him ChatGPT had falsely named him as a guilty party in a foreign bribery scandal involving a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia in the early 2000s. Hood did work for the subsidiary, Note Printing Australia, but was the person who notified authorities about payment of bribes to foreign officials to win currency printing contracts, and was never charged with a crime, lawyers re...