The Latest Breaking News from ChatGPT

Google took our memory. Could AI take away our creativity now, too? As the chatbot ChatGPT grows in popularity, Ceri Radford asks what will happen to the creative mind if screenplays, song lyrics, emails and birthday cards become as easy to generate as it is to ask Google Maps for…

Hepburn Shire Mayor Brian Hood may become the first Australian to sue a chatbot for lying about him, after he was incorrectly deemed a guilty party in a bribery scandal.

Schools and universities are panicking about artificial intelligence (AI) and cheating. But AI presents far more significant threats to equity in education.

The article (Pranshu Verma & Will Oremus) (paywalled), which was prompted by Jonathan Turley's USA Today piece, just went up. The general analysis should be familiar to our readers (see the Large Libel Models thread), but here is a comment from an OpenAI spokesperson: When users sign up for ChatGPT,…

New studies on ChatGPT and Google Bard have shown that the AI chatbots will happily write conspiracy theories or worse.

Financial Review (Australia) [Byron Kaye] reports (see also Reuters): Brian Hood, who was elected mayor of Hepburn Shire, 120 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, last November, became concerned about his reputation when members of the public told him ChatGPT had falsely named him as a guilty party in a foreign bribery…

Samsung has gotten itself into trouble with multiple instances of confidential data being handed over to ChatGPT creators OpenAI.

After authorities block OpenAI's ChatGPT over privacy concerns, Italians turn to the best VPNs to keep using the software.

ChatGPT can do a great many things, including offer access to a 28-year old version of Windows.