Several well-known personalities and key players in the field of artificial intelligence believe that chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, can pose “serious risks to society and humanity”.
ChatGPT is making a lot of noise. This conversational tool is able to exchange and follow a real dialogue with its interlocutor in the form of written messages. Its potential is enormous when used with other digital tools.
Criminals, for example, might use ChatGPT to “significantly speed up the search process” in areas they know nothing regarding: writing text to commit fraud or gathering information regarding breaking into a home, terrorism, cybercrime and sexual abuse,” the agency said.
Listen to Dave Anctil, affiliate researcher at the International Observatory on the Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital, talks regarding the non-trivial arrival of ChatGPT.
The chatbot’s ability to mimic speech styles made it particularly effective at creating phishing emails as well.
ChatGPT, which can produce text quickly, is “ideal for propaganda and disinformation purposes,” warns Europol.
ChatGPT can also be used to write computer code, without having the technical knowledge.
Dave Anctil also discusses the labor market, which will certainly be affected by the combined use of tools with ChatGPT.