Incident 449: Startup Misled Research Participants about GPT-3 Use in Mental Healthcare Support

Description: OpenAI's GPT-3 was deployed by a mental health startup without ethical review to support peer-to-peer mental healthcare, and whose interactions with the help providers were "deceiving" for research participants.

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Alleged: OpenAI developed an AI system deployed by Koko, which harmed research participants and Koko customers.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
449
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2022-12-01
Editors
Khoa Lam

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.