ChatGPT facing potential defamation lawsuit after falsely labeling Australian mayor as bribery convict

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Australia may see the first defamation lawsuit against an AI this year after a mayor threatened to sue over ChatGPT's assertion that he had committed fraud.

host to the first-ever defamation lawsuit against an AI after one of the country's mayors threatened to sue ChatGPT's creators after the chatbot falsely stated that he had been convicted in a bribery scandal.

The bribery scandal involved the company Note Printing Australia, which did pay bribes to foreign officials in an attempt to generate more business. Billionaire Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and other major tech figures expressed their worries in a public letter last month, calling on AI developers to "immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4."

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