OpenAI has already built the world’s best AI products by training them on large parts of the internet, but now it’s revealed how users and websites can prevent their data from being used to train further iterations of its models. OpenAI has launched a web crawler named GPTBot that will collect data from the internet […]
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Academic Papers Are Cropping Up With The Phrase “As An AI Language Model”, Indicating Widespread AI Plagiarism
ChatGPT is being used for all kinds of purposes, but not all of them might be equally legitimate. Academic papers have started popping up with the phrase “As an AI language model.” As discovered by Twitter user Andrew Kean Gao, there are several papers on Google scholar with this particular phrase. “As an AI language […]
ChatGPT’s Usage Falls For Second Consecutive Month After May Peak
ChatGPT had created history by becoming the fastest product in history to reach 100 million users, but it seems that some of the initial enthusiasm is now ebbing away. The monthly visits to ChatGPT’s website have fallen for the second consecutive month since its launch in November last year. In May, ChatGPT had registered nearly 1.9 billion […]
ChatGPT Appears To Hallucinate If Made To Output Its End Of Text <|endoftext|> Token
In fairytales of yore, there were often magic incantations that stopped great forces merely through their utterance — no sooner than the words were spoken, would magical beings come to a grinding halt. In the 21st century, something very similar seems to be happening with LLMs. Twitter users have discovered that ChatGPT glitches if cleverly […]
Researchers Jailbreak ChatGPT, Bard By Adding A Specific Bit Of Text To Their Prompts
The longer the LLMs have been in public view, the the most sophsticated the techniques to jailbreak them seem to be getting. Researchers have managed to jailbreak LLMs and override their safety controls by adding a simple bit of text to their inputs. This bit of text is designed to confuse the LLM, and makes […]
Some Schools Now Ask For Homework On Google Docs So Document History Can Tell If It Was Written By ChatGPT
ChatGPT has given students a way to cheat on their assignments, but schools are now fighting back — and with some unconventional approaches. Schools are now supposedly asking students to submit their homework via Google Docs to prevent cheating through ChatGPT. “Was talking to my cousin in high school about ChatGPT,” wrote Twitter user Tara […]
ChatGPT’s Monthly Visits Fall For The First Time Since Launch
ChatGPT had created history by becoming the fastest product in history to reach 100 million users, but it seems that some of the initial enthusiasm is now ebbing away. The monthly visits to ChatGPT’s website have fallen for the first time since its launch in November last year. In May, ChatGPT had registered nearly 1.75 […]
Lawyer In Trouble With Judge After ChatGPT Cited Made-Up Cases In Filing
There’s no shortage of reports of people having saved countless hours at works thanks to ChatGPT, but using ChatGPT in the real world can also lead to some unintended consequences. A lawyer in the US has been pulled up by the courts after he used ChatGPT for a filing and it cited cases which didn’t […]
OpenAI VP Explains Why ChatGPT Can’t Reverse Words
ChatGPT can come up with original poems, long bits of prose, and all kinds of historical facts, but it often slips up at some of the most basic tasks — and an OpenAI employee has now provided some insight into why. OpenAI VP Peter Welinder has explained why ChatGPT is unable to reverse words or […]
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Isn’t Impressed With ChatGPT
The world might be raving about ChatGPT and its capabilities, but one of its most independent — and outspoken — thinkers isn’t impressed. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of books such as Fooled by Randomness and Black Swan, has been steadfast in his assertions that ChatGPT isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. “ChatGPT […]