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ChatGPT hit with privacy complaint over defamatory hallucinations: ChatGPT created a fake child murderer. (noyb.eu)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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OpenAI’s highly popular chatbot, ChatGPT, regularly gives false information about people without offering any way to correct it. In many cases, these so-called “hallucinations” can seriously damage a person’s reputation: In the past, ChatGPT falsely accused people of corruption, child abuse – or even murder. The latter was the case with a Norwegian user. When he tried to find out if the chatbot had any information about him, ChatGPT confidently made up a fake story that pictured him as a convicted murderer. This clearly isn’t an isolated case. noyb has therefore filed its second complaint against OpenAI. By knowingly allowing ChatGPT to produce defamatory results, the company clearly violates the GDPR’s principle of data accuracy.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
  1. What does this have to do with privacy?
  2. People also make up shit all the time about other people. Many spread their bullshit online. ChatGPT does not.
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago
  1. You can ask Google to take down malicious requests for your name. With ChatGPT it's never guaranteed.
  2. ChatGPT is often used as a search engine so anything wrong it says IS spreading bullshit online.
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Despite what others are saying there is indeed an inaccuracy in calling this a privacy complaint. A lot of people outside of the EU conflate privacy with data protection, but they are not the same and GDPR does not concern with privacy but exclusively with personal data protection.

Accuracy, availability and governance of personal data are indeed important criteria for data protection, and this is what this is about.

Regarding people making shit up, if they make such things public, GDPR governs those just as much, while still referring to the normal legislation for the charges for slander.

[–] Uranium_Green 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
  1. Is this a quirk of the fediverse?

The community this has been posted in for me is Technology, not Privacy

2.And those people should also face scrutiny if they are making up potentially life ruining stuff such as accusing someone being a child murderer. The bit I'd want some context for, is whether this is a one off hallucination, or a consistent one that multiple seperate users could see if they asked about this person.

If it's a one of hallucination, it's not good, but nowhere near as bad as a consistent 'hard baked' hallucination.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

The headline is what says there's a privacy complaint.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

OpenAI was hit was a privacy complaint, don't think the comment was about which community this was in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
  1. It doesn't. I'm with you there.
  2. Many countries in Europe have very strong anti-defamation laws, unlike in the US. What you are allowed to say about people is very different from what you are allowed to say about practically anything else. Since OpenAI is in control of the model, it is their responsibility to ensure it doesn't produce results like these.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
  1. It can be viewed as part of your privacy to not be subject to defamation.
  2. If it reaches the threshold of defamation it is punishable. Whether its enforcement is feasible is another matter.