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Beijing, April 5 (Xinhua) A local sheriff in Australia said on Wednesday that if OpenAI did not correct ChatGPT's false claim that he had been jailed for bribery, he might sue OpenAI. If he does take legal action, it will be the first time ChatGPT has been sued for libel in the world.

ChatGPT faces a libel lawsuit last November when Brian Hood was elected sheriff of Hepburn Shire, 120km northwest of Melbourne. The public told him that the ChatGPT had mistakenly listed him as the perpetrator of an overseas bribery scandal in the early 21st century involving the Australian banknote Printing Company, a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Then he began to worry about his reputation.

Hood's lawyer said Hood did work for the Australian banknote printing company, but he was the one who exposed to the authorities that the company bribed foreign officials to win the banknote printing contract and has never been charged with a crime. Lawyers said they sent a letter to OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, on March 21, asking OpenAI to fix errors in its client's claims within 28 days, or the company could face a libel lawsuit. According to Hood's lawyer, OpenAI has not yet responded to their legal letter. OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment.

If Hood sues, it could be the first time someone has sued the owner of ChatGPT for claims about the automated language product. Since its launch last year, ChatGPT has become popular all over the world. Microsoft integrated ChatGPT into its Bing search engine in February. A Microsoft spokesman could not be reached for comment.

"in a sense, this could be a landmark moment because it applies this libel law to new areas of artificial intelligence and IT publishing," said James Naughton, a partner at Gordon Legal, the law firm that Hood hired. "he is an elected official and his reputation is crucial to his position. Hood was elected on the basis of a public record of corporate misconduct. Therefore, if people in his community could see these materials, it would be different for him. "

Australian libel damages are usually capped at around 400,000 Australian dollars (1.85 million yuan). Mr. Norton said Mr. Hood did not know how many people had been exposed to false information about him, which determined the amount of compensation, but the nature of the libel was serious enough that he might claim more than A $200000.

Mr. Norton said that if Mr. Hood sued, he would accuse ChatGPT of giving users a false sense of accuracy by not adding footnotes. "it's hard for anyone to say from behind, 'how did the algorithm get this answer?'" "it's very opaque," Norton said. "

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