SYDNEY: An Australian mayor is considering a defamation lawsuit over false claims made by ChatGPT that he had served time in prison for bribery, in what would be the first such action of its kind against the automated text service.
Brian Hood, who was elected mayor of Hepburn Shire, 120km northwest of Melbourne, last November, became concerned about his reputation when members of the public told him ChatGPT had falsely named him as a guilty party in a foreign bribery scandal involving a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia in the early 2000s.
