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OpenAI settles with Australian whistleblower in first chatbot defamation case

By James Panichi
  • 08 Feb 2024 01:42
  • 08 Feb 2024 01:42
OpenAI has quietly settled a landmark defamation lawsuit, with the lawyer acting for an Australian whistleblower confirming that the company had agreed to remove incorrect content about his client that had been generated by the ChatGPT chatbot.
In a statement to MLex, Gordon Legal Partner James Naughton confirmed that his

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James Panichi

Senior Editor, Asia Pacific


James, an Australian journalist with over 25 years’ experience in print and electronic media, helps to oversee MLex’s coverage of regulatory risk in Asia, with special attention to Australia and New Zealand. In 2016, James was appointed as MLex’s managing editor for continental Europe, overseeing the Brussels bureau’s coverage of EU regulatory affairs and managing a team of 16 journalists in Brussels and Geneva. Previously James worked for the European Voice newspaper, before joining the European operation of US political website Politico as an investigative reporter specializing in governance, transparency and lobbying.

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