The lawsuit is believed to be the first defamation complaint related toMark Walters, founder of Armed American Radio , filed the lawsuit against OpenAI in Georgia state court, seeking unspecified monetary damages. According to the complaint, journalist Fred Riehl, who is editor of AmmoLand.com, on May 4 asked ChatGPT to summarize Second Amendment Foundation v.
“ChatGPT’s allegations concerning Walters were false and malicious, expressed in print, writing, pictures, or signs, tending to injure Walter’s reputation and exposing him to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule,” the lawsuit states. “By sending the allegations to Riehl, [OpenAI] published libelous matter regarding Walters.”
San Francisco-based OpenAI is a private research lab that develops AI, founded in 2015 as a nonprofit organization by Elon Musk , CEO Sam Altman and others.