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A Chatbot Could Never Write This Article. Here’s Why

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by Daily Beast

“If people are just using [ChatGPT] to try to surface information, the thing that’s concerning is that it can generate completely credible-, accurate-sounding bullshit,” she said. Look no further than Meta’s attempt at creating an AI for academic studies and papers—which resulted in racist, sexist, discriminatory, and fake studies.

“I keep thinking of the old Facebook slogan of move fast and break things,” Raicu said. “A lot of companies moved away from that, but now I think we're back to breaking things.”

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by Daily Beast.

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