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ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it

noyb - European Center for Digital Rights

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Artificial Intelligence In the EU, the GDPR requires that information about individuals is accurate and that they have full access to the information stored, as well as information about the source. Surprisingly, however, OpenAI openly admits that it is unable to correct incorrect information on ChatGPT. Furthermore, the company cannot say where the data comes from or what data ChatGPT stores about individual people. The company is well aware of this problem, but doesn’t seem to care. Instead, OpenAI simply argues that “factual accuracy in large language models remains an area of active research”. Therefore, noyb today filed a complaint against OpenAI with the Austrian DPA. Complaint against OpenAIChatGPT keeps hallucinating - and not even OpenAI can stop it. The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 triggered an unprecedented AI hype. People started using the chatbot for all sorts of purposes, including research tasks. The problem is that, according to OpenAI itself, the application only