The AI bot ChatGPT has passed exams, written poetry, and deployed in newsrooms, and now politicians are seeking it out — but experts are warning against rapid uptake of a tool also famous for fabricating "facts."
The chatbot, released last November by U.S. firm OpenAI, has quickly moved center stage in politics — particularly as a way of scoring points.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida recently took a direct hit from the bot when he answered some innocuous questions about health care reform from an opposition MP.
Unbeknownst to the PM, his adversary had generated the questions with ChatGPT. He also generated answers that he claimed were "more sincere" than Kishida's.
The PM hit back that his own answers had been "more specific..."
"It's useful to think of ChatGPT and generative AI in general as a cliche generator," David Karpf of George Washington University in the U.S. said during a recent online panel.
"Most of what we do in politics is also cliche generation."
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