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ChatGPT Erroneously Alleged Mayor Served Prison Time for Bribery

AI Incident Database · article · Apr 5, 2023 · UTC

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.

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incident-report
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reported
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Global

Reported occurrence date: 2023-03-15T00:00:00.000Z

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AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.

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