Legal Issues, Top Leaders Threats of Regulation Lead AI This Week
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday as he tours Asia talking about generative AI.
Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/BloombergThis was the week AI went to court.
ChatGPT creator OpenAI was hit with its first defamation lawsuit over its chatbot's hallucinations. (A Georgia radio host says it made up a legal complaint accusing him of embezzling money.) A man accused of robbery, meanwhile, was given the authority to inspect the AI-powered, facial recognition technology that New Jersey investigators used to nab him. And a New York lawyer faced punishment for filing a brief riddled with phony legal precedents created by ChatGPT.