![]() He also questioned a list of peer-reviewed articles produced by ChatGPT, on the very good grounds that one of the citations was an article by Van Staden himself, which he never wrote.Ī different AI, Galactica, by Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, was supposed to create useful information using the scientific literature as training data. It quoted new precedents and attributed them to judges who never spoke those words.’ In response to my tweet on the subject, South African writer and legal expert Martin van Staden told a similar story: ‘ChatGPT also generated an entirely new set of facts when I asked it to summarise the Constitutional Court judgment of S v Jordan. In at least one case, it not only falsely accused someone, but it fabricated a news article in a reputable newspaper to use as a source. The problem was that its list was not accurate. It duly did so, using the names of real law professors. ![]() ![]() In a far more worrying case, an AI ( ChatGPT by OpenAI) was asked to produce a list of law professors who had sexually harassed someone. Since photographs are widely mistaken for good evidence, millions of people believed it. In one case, a ‘deepfake’ image (deepfake just means a fake that is hard to detect at a glance) of Donald Trump being arrested went viral. It has produced some surprisingly competent output.Īmong its output, however, is not only false information, but fraudulent sources with which to back up that disinformation. Generative AI can create text or images based on prompts, by combining vast reams of training data to discover how words, sentences, image elements, and sounds are often used together. My fear is not that an AI will soon be able to write with all the irreverence, insight, wit, literary flair and honesty that would be required to replace my humble contributions to this august newspaper. (It will, by many measures of intelligence, but intelligent tools are awesome.)įears about how it will control humanity. (They are valid, but hardly apocalyptic.)įears about how it might become more intelligent than humans. (It will, just like computers replaced floors of clerks and typing pools without causing a major unemployment crisis.)įears about copyright infringement. Fears about how it will replace human jobs. There are many fears about artificial intelligence (AI). ![]() It is doubtful that these can be addressed. Recent developments in generative AI, which made AI a star in the public imagination, brought with them widespread ethical fears. Facebook Tweet LinkedIn WhatsApp Telegram Reddit ![]()
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