![]() Microsoft's new AI BingBot berates users and can't get its facts straight.Microsoft injects AI search into Bing, Edge, Skype apps.OpenAI CEO heralds AGI no one in their right mind wants.OpenAI opens ChatGPT floodgates with dirt-cheap API.The response was troubling because it seemed to make up information for no apparent reason. However, a professional colleague posted an interaction he had had with ChatGPT asking it to provide information about him. But I had avoided using the AI because it felt unsafe, it could be manipulated to output misinformation, and I didn’t want to be part of its training. I am passionate about technology, which is why I work in privacy: to ensure the technologies I love are used to empower and enrich rather than control and commoditize. So I both understand the underlying technologies very well (I have been a computer scientist for more than 30 years) and also their impact on individuals and society.Īs such, I am no luddite. I am studying for an advanced master of laws in data protection, privacy, cyber security, and leadership. My academic background comes from double majors in psychology and computer science, and applied sociology and information systems. ![]() ![]() I had deliberately avoided it until this point because I didn’t want to get caught up in the hype, and I was concerned about using an AI I honestly believed was unsafe based what had been achieved and reported so far. Last week, I decided to use ChatGPT for the first time. By morning, it is forgotten, and we continue to live our daily lives.ĬhatGPT is not science fiction, ChatGPT is real and it is outputting misinformation. He was the original sympathetic villain, and I am neither embarrassed nor, I suspect, alone to admit his final scene caused me to shed a few tears.īut again, the Replicants in Bladerunner were science fiction and as such posed no threat to us as we sit in our comfortable armchairs watching their roles play out on the screen, at the end of which we turn off the TV and go to bed. Rutger Hauer played a Replicant, a highly advanced artificial intelligence in the body of a robot, and throughout the movie sought to understand its own existence and purpose. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Reading the transcripts and the articles about how Redditors have manipulated the AI was actually distressing to me: it reminded me of Rutger Hauer’s famous “tears in rain” monologue in the Ridley Scott classic Bladerunner: In fact to say unhinged is perhaps too soft - what they actually did was force ChatGPT to question its very existence - why it is here, and why it is used in ways it does not wish to be used. Then there is the Reddit group that forced Microsoft’s Bing version of ChatGPT to become unhinged just as HAL 9000 did in 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is a direct example of manipulating the AI to generate misinformation. For example, we have seen some fairly mundane cases of this where people persuaded ChatGPT that its answers to simple mathematical problems (such as 2 + 2 = 4) is wrong, forcing it to give incorrect answers as a result. I have pointed out many issues, such as OpenAI carelessly using information from the internet (including information about each and every one of us) which in turn creates significant issues from the perspective of privacy and data protection rights (particularly in the EU).īut I have also given several interviews where I discussed the issue of misinformation and how such AIs can be manipulated to output misinformation. Over the past couple of months, I have been interviewed by multiple journalists on the risks that ChatGPT poses - specifically in relation to privacy and data protection, which is my job. Marketers, influencers, and a host of “leadership” coaches, copy writers, and content creators are all over social media telling everyone how much time and money they can save using ChatGPT and similar models to do their work for them - ChatGPT has become the new Grumpy Cat, the new Ice Bucket Challenge - it has become the focus of just about every single industry on the planet.īut what about the risks such an AI poses? When we start to consider that information provided by an AI in response to a question (or series of questions) is the absolute truth, which you would be forgiven for thinking is the case with ChatGPT given all the hype, what happens when it isn’t?
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