A regional mayor from Australia says he may sue OpenAI if they do not correct the false claims of their chat bot ChatGPT which say he served time in prison for bribery.

If Mayor Brian Hood files suit, it would be the first defamation lawsuit in the world against an automated text service and AI.

Hood said he first became worried about his reputation when members of the public told him that ChatGPT tapped him as a guilty party in a foreign bribery scandal that involved a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia in the early 2000s.

Hood was employed at the subsidiary, Note Printing Australia. However, he was the person who informed police about payment of bribes to foreign officials in order to win currency printing contracts. Hood was never charged with a crime.

Lawyers for the mayor say that they have sent a letter of concern to ChatGPT’s owner OpenAI on March 21, giving them 28 days to fix the errors or face a defamation lawsuit.