Some have noticed that if you ask about it ChatGPT “who is such and such”, usually the artificial intelligence program gives completely wrong answers. However, one Australian mayor was so angered by the response that he is considering suing OpenAI.

It all started when friends of Brian Hood, the mayor of Hepburn County (120 kilometers northwest of Melbourne), informed him that ChatGPT was spreading lies about him. In particular, when asked “who is Brian Hood”, the bot replied that he was “found guilty in a bribery scandal involving a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia in the early 2000s.”

The scandal is real, and Hood really worked for this subsidiary. However, according to his lawyers, Hood was not implicated in the bribery scandal from foreign officials, but the one who revealed the whole case to the authorities.

On March 21, Hood’s lawyers sent a letter to OpenAI asking them to resolve the issue within a month or face trial. The company that created ChatGPT has not yet responded.

If a defamation suit is indeed filed, it would be the first of its kind in the world against ChatGPT.

“This is a milestone as it will be the first time defamation law will be applied to the new field of artificial intelligence,” commented a company lawyer representing Hood.

Under Australian law, the mayor can seek up to A$400,000 (about €247,000) in damages.

According to the Guardian

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