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ChatGPT Reportedly Introduces Errors in Critical Child Protection Court Report

September 25, 2024

A child protection worker in Victoria, Australia reportedly used ChatGPT to draft a report submitted to the Children's Court. The purportedly AI-generated report contained inaccuracies and downplayed risks to the child, allegedly resulting in a privacy breach when sensitive information was shared with OpenAI.
Alleged deployer
government-of-victoria, employee-of-department-of-families-fairness-and-housing, department-of-families-fairness-and-housing
Alleged developer
openai
Alleged harmed parties
unnamed-family-of-child, unnamed-child

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/807

Data source

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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