Grant Reviewers Fed Applications into Generative AI to Produce Reports, Allegedly Breaching Confidentiality
June 30, 2023
Peer reviewers of Australian government grant applications inserted applicants' work into generative AI systems such as ChatGPT to generate assessment reports, which allegedly posed confidentiality and security issues.
- Alleged deployer
- openai
- Alleged developer
- openai
- Alleged harmed parties
- research-grant-administrators, research-grant-applicants
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/559
Data source
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