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ChatGPT Allegedly Produced False Accusation of Sexual Harassment
- Occurred
- Mar 29, 2023
- Published
- Dec 2, 2024
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
A lawyer in California asked the AI chatbot ChatGPT to generate a list of legal scholars who had sexually harassed someone. The chatbot produced a false story of Professor Jonathan Turley sexually harassing a student on a class trip.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Jonathan Turley
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: ChatGPT hallucinated a false sexual harassment accusation against a specific individual.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8