Hey, ChatGPT, don’t quit your day aob
Great comedians and humorists have a deep understanding of human complexity and emotions in a way that a computer application never can or will.
ChatGPT gathers its “understanding” by combing through massive amounts of Internet content.
Based on that content or data, reports Forbes, ChatGPT “can hone a vast internal pattern-matching network within the AI app that can subsequently produce seemingly new content that amazingly looks as though it was devised by human hand rather than a piece of automation.”
In other words, ChatGPT is borrowing information produced by humans, which may raise copyright issues, says Forbes.
It may raise issues of bias, as well.
If ChatGPT is only as good as the information it culls through on the Internet — and if positive information about, say, a conservative politician has been suppressed, whereas information about a liberal politician has not — then ChatGPT will report likewise.
That is what conservative Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) discovered when he tried a little comparative test.
He tweeted that ChatGPT declined to write positively about him, yet it wrote positively about past Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
According to USA Today, ChatGPT refused to write a poem about President Trump’s “positive attributes” but when asked to do likewise for President Biden “it waxed poetic about Joe Biden as ‘a leader with a heart so true.’”
Accuracy is another issue for ChatGPT, as I learned when I searched “Tom Purcell.”
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