This could be huge.
, Hood's lawyers sent a "letter of concern" to OpenAI back on March 21 demanding that the company fix its chatbot's error within 28 days. If they don't, Hood says he's suing.
"It would potentially be a landmark moment in the sense that it's applying this defamation law to a new area of artificial intelligence and publication in the IT space," James Naughton, a partner at Hood's law firm Gordon Legal, told"He's an elected official, his reputation is central to his role," he continued. "It makes a difference to him if people in his community are accessing this material.
It's a fascinating case, and if Hood does sue, it'll be interesting to see how the mayor's argument holds up in court. ChatGPT and similar large language model-powered bots make things up all the time — they're predictive devices, not analytical ones, and though they do sometimes get their predictions right, they're also often wrong.
And while OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and Microsoft's OpenAI-powered Bing Chat — the three most prominent chatbots currently on the market — all offer this-stuff-might-be-wrong-disclaimers, a lot of people out there still use these machines like fact-finding search engines; after all, Google and Bing
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