Names Linked to Defamation Lawsuits Reportedly Spur Filtering Errors in ChatGPT's Name Recognition
November 30, 2024
ChatGPT has reportedly been experiencing errors and service disruptions caused by hard-coded filters designed to prevent it from producing potentially harmful or defamatory content about certain individuals by blocking prompts containing specific names, likely related to post-training interventions. The reported names are Brian Hood, Jonathan Turley, Jonathan Zittrain, David Faber, David Mayer, and Guido Scorza.
- Alleged deployer
- openai, chatgpt-users
- Alleged developer
- openai, chatgpt
- Alleged harmed parties
- jonathan-zittrain, jonathan-turley, guido-scorza, david-mayer, david-faber, chatgpt-users, brian-hood
Source
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