ChatGPT Reportedly Introduces Errors in Critical Child Protection Court Report

September 25, 2024

An incident involving the use of AI, specifically ChatGPT, has been reported where an alleged drafting error occurred in a child protection court report submitted to the Children's Court in Victoria, Australia. The AI-generated document contained inconsistencies and understated risks to the child's safety. This case raises concerns about data privacy as sensitive information might have been compromised during sharing with OpenAI.

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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

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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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