Today’s PAID article is based on a single slide from my keynote, “Machine in the Ghost, the ethical implications of ChatGPT’s spooky ability to sound human.” If you’re interested in an unbranded copy of the keynote in PPT format and released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, please click the link at the end of the article.
I have been asked what the most significant risk raised by ChatGPT was. My answer is fraud by impersonation of confidence.
The rise of large language models such as GPT-4 has led to remarkable advancements in natural language processing, enabling machines to generate text almost indistinguishable from a human’s. But, unfortunately, while this technology has enormous potential to revolutionize many industries, it also poses a new threat to society: fraud by impersonation of confidence.
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