Brian Hood, the mayor of Hepburn Shire, Australia, is contemplating suing OpenAI for defamation after its ChatGPT service falsely accused him of serving prison time for bribery, according to multiple reports overnight.
If pursued, this would be the first lawsuit of its kind against the AI-driven text service.
San Francisco-based OpenAI has yet to respond to Hood's legal letter, and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), which integrated ChatGPT into Bing, has not commented on the issue, Reuters said.
If the lawsuit proceeds, it could be a groundbreaking case, applying defamation law to AI and IT, according to James Naughton, a partner at Hood's law firm Gordon Legal, the wire service added.