OpenAI Sued for Alleged Defamation
Summary
Mark Walters, the founder of Armed American Radio broadcasts, filed a complaint against OpenAI in the Superior Court of Gwinnett County, Georgia. The complaint alleges that OpenAI defamed Mr. Walters when its generative AI tool, ChatGPT, allegedly generated untrue statements describing Mr. Walters. The generated statements were allegedly made in response to a query by AmmoLand.com reporter Fred Riehl, who requested that ChatGPT provide a summary of an existing court complaint from the Second Amendment Foundation. The generated statements were not published.
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