Brian Hood, Mayor of the Hepburn Shire Council in Australia, is considering taking legal action against OpenAI after chatbot ChatGPT claimed he was jailed for bribery. In reality, he was a whistleblower and was never charged with a crime. His lawyers are defending the defamation case in Australia. sent a notice to OpenAI, the first official step in the case. OpenAI has 28 days to respond to the notice. If Hood takes legal action, it would be the first time OpenAI would face a public defamation lawsuit over content created by ChatGPT.