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OpenAI settles with Australian whistleblower in first chatbot defamation case

By James Panichi ( February 8, 2024, 01:42 GMT | Insight) -- ChatGPT owner OpenAI has quietly settled a landmark defamation lawsuit, with the lawyer acting for an Australian whistleblower confirming that the company had agreed to remove incorrect content about his client that had been generated by the chatbot. The Australian lawyer acting for Brian Hood said that the settlement “succeeded in shining a light on the shortcomings of ChatGPT and the need for transparency of sources and responsibility for the information communicated.”OpenAI has quietly settled a landmark defamation lawsuit, with the lawyer acting for an Australian whistleblower confirming that the company had agreed to remove incorrect content about his client that had been generated by the ChatGPT chatbot....

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