LLMMedium
ChatGPT Erroneously Alleged Mayor Served Prison Time for Bribery
- Occurred
- Mar 15, 2023
- Published
- Apr 6, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
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.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Brian Hood
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: ChatGPT hallucinated false criminal allegations against a public official, prompting potential legal action.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8