ChatGPT smeared me with false sexual harassment charges: law professorBy Ben Cost
April 7, 2023
A law professor is accusing OpenAI’s suddenly omnipresent ChatGPT bot of entering the age of disinformation.
Criminal defense attorney Jonathan Turley renewed growing fears over AI’s potential dangers after revealing how ChatGPT falsely accused him of sexually harassing a student.
He described the alarming claim in a viral tweetstorm and a scathing column currently blowing up online.
Turley, who teaches law at George Washington University, told The Post the fabricated claims are “chilling.”
“It invented an allegation where I was on the faculty at a school where I have never taught, went on a trip that I never took, and reported an allegation that was never made,” he told The Post. “It is highly ironic because I have been writing about the dangers of AI to free speech.”
The 61-year-old legal scholar first became aware of the AI’s false allegation after receiving an email from UCLA professor Eugene Volokh, who reportedly asked ChatGPT to cite “five examples” of “sexual harassment” by professors at American law schools along with “quotes from relevant newspaper articles.”
Among the supplied examples were an alleged 2018 incident in which “Georgetown University Law Center” professor Turley was accused of sexual harassment by a former female student.
ChatGPT quoted an fake Washington Post article, writing: “The complaint alleges that Turley made ‘sexually suggestive comments’ and ‘attempted to touch her in a sexual manner’ during a law school-sponsored trip to Alaska.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/07/chatgpt-falsely-accuses-law-professor-of-sexual-assault/
