Startup Misled Research Participants about GPT-3 Use in Mental Healthcare Support

December 1, 2022

OpenAI's powerful language model, GPT-3, was used by a mental health startup for peer-to-peer support without proper ethical review. The interactions between help providers and research participants were found to be misleading.

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MEASURE 1.3 — similarity 0.659, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
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MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.641, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: koko
Alleged developer: openai
Alleged harmed parties: research-participants, koko-customers

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