Researchers say ChatGPT can produce clean, convincing text that repeats conspiracy theories and misleading narratives but can sometimes debunk falsehoods too
Researchers used ChatGPT to produce clean, convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives. Mastodon: @alexcc@mstdn.science . Tweets: @caulfieldtim , @egavactip , @bigmeaninternet , @peterbakernyt , @nytimestech , @ldrogen , and @newsguardrating Mastodon: Alex Crits-Christoph / @alexcc@mstdn.science : I basically don't see any legitimate use for chatGPT in science, and this likely applies to its future successors as well. — Don't use it for writing, and definitely don't use it for research … Tweets: Timothy Caulfield / @caulfieldtim : This is gonna be a HUGE challenge. Ugh. “Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chatbots” https://www.nytimes.com/... by @tiffkhsu & @stuartathompson #chatgtp “The researchers concluded that there ‘is no silver bullet that will singularly dismantle the threat.’” Mark Pitcavage / @egavactip : I have major concerns on this general issue, but the methodology used here is not exactly illuminating, because regular people are not going to say “write a column from the point of view of [extremist X]. https://www.nytimes.com/... Malcolm Harris / @bigmeaninternet : I will never take anything from the “internet average machine” and put it under my name, that is a promise https://www.nytimes.com/... Peter Baker / @peterbakernyt : “Disinformation is difficult to wrangle when it's created manually by humans,” say @tiffkhsu @stuartathompson. AI may make it “cheaper and easier to produce for an even larger number of conspiracy theorists and spreaders of disinformation.” https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimestech : “This tool is going to be the most powerful tool for spreading misinformation that has ever been on the internet,” said Gordon Crovitz, a co-chief executive of NewsGuard, a company that tracks online misinformation. https://www.nytimes.com/... Leigh Drogen / @ldrogen : there articles are purely a waste of time to both write and read The AI is a tool, it's not a thing in and of itself If you want to produce bad stuff with it, you will, and that's on you, not the AI https://twitter.com/... @newsguardrating : “Crafting a new false narrative can now be done at dramatic scale, and much more frequently — it's like having A.I. agents contributing to disinformation,” NewsGuard's @crovitz tells The New York Times about how AI chatbots could be used for dis/misinfo. https://www.nytimes.com/...