Startup Misled Research Participants about GPT-3 Use in Mental Healthcare Support
December 1, 2022
OpenAI's GPT-3 was deployed by a mental health startup without ethical review to support peer-to-peer mental healthcare, and whose interactions with the help providers were "deceiving" for research participants.
- Alleged deployer
- koko
- Alleged developer
- openai
- Alleged harmed parties
- research-participants, koko-customers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/449
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