AI-Generated Defamation and Legal Liability: A Closer Look

On April 5, 2023, Brian Hood, mayor of Australia’s Hepburn Shire, initiated what was billed as the world’s first defamation action against OpenAI, after ChatGPT mistakenly claimed he’d been imprisoned for bribery. Hood had been a whistleblower in a Reserve Bank–linked scandal and faced no criminal charges. His legal team issued a “concerns notice” under Australian defamation law […]