A medicine cannot be sold without proof. With AI, the same thing should happen.

The mayor of an Australian town has threatened to file the first lawsuit against OpenAI, the owner of the popular chatbot ChatGPT, if he does not correct the false claims of the tool, which falsely states that he was sentenced to prison for bribery, reports 'The Sidney Morning Herald'. If it were to go ahead, it would become the first denunciation of AI automated text service, which could help glimpse if the technology behind these tools bears any responsibility for the results they offer.

The lawsuit would be filed by Brian Hood, mayor of the village of Hepburn Shire since last November. Specifically, the tool owned by OpenAI would explain to users that they resort to the service that the representative was sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2011 for bribing foreign officials. The reality is Hood was one of the perpetrators of the plot, involving a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia in the early 2000s. He was never charged with any crime.

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"I felt a little bit stunned. Because it was so wrong, so savagely wrong, that it just amazed me. And then I got very angry about it," says the mayor of Hepburn Shire.

Hood lawyers sent a complaint to OpenAI on 21 March. The company, so far, would not have offered any response. However, he has repeatedly acknowledged that his smart chatbot can make mistakes and generate misinformation. A problem that was unable to solve in its latest version, which became public only a few weeks ago.

Solutions such as ChatGPT, as well as tools capable of generating images and videos from a handful of words, are in the spotlight after a group of over a thousand personalities, including executives, developers and humanists, signed an open letter calling for a moratorium on the development of new solutions. The aim would be to implement new security measures to prevent technology from generating problems of this kind. Signatories consulted by ABC have also stressed the importance of these solutions being regulated and tested by external experts.