Incident 559: Grant Reviewers Fed Applications into Generative AI to Produce Reports, Allegedly Breaching Confidentiality
Description: Peer reviewers of Australian government grant applications inserted applicants' work into generative AI systems such as ChatGPT to generate assessment reports, which allegedly posed confidentiality and security issues.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: OpenAI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed research grant administrators and research grant applicants.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
559
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2023-06-30
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
itnews.com.au · 2023
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Academics have alleged that some peer reviews of grant applications are being written with ChatGPT, prompting the Australian Research Council (ARC) to warn academics that feeding their peers’ work into generative AI models could be a breach…
theguardian.com · 2023
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The Australian Research Council has faced allegations that some of its peer reviewers may have used ChatGPT to assess research proposals, prompting a warning from the education minister and concerns about possible academic misconduct.
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