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Grant Reviewers Reportedly Fed Applications into Generative AI to Produce Reports, Allegedly Breaching Confidentiality
- Occurred
- Jun 30, 2023
- Published
- Jul 8, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Peer reviewers of Australian government grant applications reportedly inserted applicants' work into generative AI systems such as ChatGPT to generate assessment reports, which allegedly posed confidentiality and security issues.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Large language model developers
- Chatbot developers
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- research grant applicants
- research grant administrators
- Privacy
- Grant applicants
- Government of Australia
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Reviewers inputting confidential grant applications into public AI systems violates data privacy and confidentiality protocols.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8