ChatGPT falsely accuses innocent law professor of sexually harassing students

In a strange case, AI chatbot ChatGPT has falsely named an innocent and respected law professor in the US as part of an investigation into a list of legal scholars who have sexually harassed students in the past.

Jonathan Turley, Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, was shocked when he realized that ChatGPT named him part of a research project on legal scholars who had sexually harassed someone.

“ChatGPT recently published a false story accusing me of sexually abusing students,” Turki wrote on Twitter.

In a USA Today op-ed, he wrote that he received a curious email from a law professor about an investigation he was conducting on ChatGPT into sexual harassment by professors.

“The show immediately reported that I had been accused of sexual harassment in a 2018 Washington Post article after groping law students on a trip to Alaska,” Turley said.

The fact is, he has never been to Alaska with students, and The Post has never published such an article.

Turley said no one has ever accused him of sexual harassment or assault.

“Most strikingly, this false allegation was not only created by AI, but was apparently based on a Post article that never existed,” he wrote.

Meanwhile, the mayor of Hepburn Shire in Australia, Brian Hood, has threatened to sue OpenAI if the Microsoft-owned company does not correct false information about him.

ChatGPT reportedly named Hood as a convicted felon involved in a past and present bribery scandal at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).

According to Turley, the use of artificial intelligence and algorithms can give censorship a false patina of science and objectivity.

“Even if people can prove, as in my case, that the story is false, companies can ‘blame it on the bot’ and only promise improvements to the system,” he said.

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