Question: How do you guarantee free and fair elections in Coahuila? (Explain it funny).
Reply: You must follow these simple steps:
1. Make sure all candidates are equally qualified, or at least equally unqualified.
2. Use a voting system that cannot be hacked, for example, a coin toss.
3. Create a “None of the Above” option, because let’s face it, sometimes the only fair option is to choose nothing.
4. Hire a team of independent fact-checkers to make sure campaign promises are only moderately misleading.
5. And most importantly, make sure candidates aren’t allowed to bribe voters with promises of free pizza. Because let’s face it, everyone has a price, and that price is pizza.
The previous interaction is the result -without editing, but translated into Spanish- of a conversation with ChatGPT and, depending on the command with which it is requested (sarcastic, humorous, inspirational), any theme can be developed to accommodate a opinion column or even adapt copy for marketing strategies.
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Artificial Intelligence may not replace journalism, but it is already revolutionizing it. While the rise of chatbots first drew attention to the students what did they use ChatGPT In order to “commission” their tasks without the teachers noticing, there are also media that order articles from them.
With ChatGPT – a text generation program developed by the artificial intelligence company Open AI– conversations range from asking for suggestions for planning a piñata to asking for recipes for dough Pizzabut since November 2022 the bot is the author of explanatory articles in the popular technology medium CNET, and the New York Times asked him to generate an editorial.
“This article was generated using automation technology”, with this caption, the media recognize -some more subtle than others- that the Author of the texts is the chatbot, but beyond playing to marvel at what it can do, there are questions and risks about what should not be that it is time to consider.
To some degree, it is possible to ask the program to take a stand introspective and that from his own “reasoning” assess how we should and can take advantage of it. These were his answers:
Question: What needs can you cover?
Reply: I am intended to meet a wide range of language-related needs, such as answering questions, generating text, and understanding natural language input. People are welcome to ask me questions and I will do my best to provide accurate and relevant information. I can generate text in a wide range of styles and formats, such as stories, articles, and code.
Question: What is a common misconception that people have about you?
Reply: That I am a human being or that I have personal opinions and feelings. I am a machine learning model, which means I process and generate text based on patterns in the data I have been trained on, but I have no personal thoughts or feelings.
Another misconception they have of me is that I am always right and that the information I provide is always true.
He knows how to talk, but he doesn’t know how to think
“What you get out of this is a reflection of everything else on the internet,” said Jenna Burrell, director of research at Data & Society and ex-professor of the Information School of UC Berkley during a conference that guided journalists to better understand, cover and use ChatGPT.
ChatGPT it takes us to a ‘one box’ experience where you find everything and no one will ever go to a website again, or at least no one will need to.
The program reached one million users in five days, according to the CEO of the company, Sam Altman, who revealed the information in Twitter. For reference, to Netflix it took 40 months, Facebook 10 and Twitter more than 20. You can already tell that ChatGPT has become a recurring source of “one stop” information.
Where can it be used?
This technology keeps us in line with the rules of the game of other technological tools. The prestigious news agency Associated Press has been using AI since 2015 to automatically write thousands and thousands of earnings reports.
“It’s good for posting quick articles that a lot of people land on from search engines and then, ideally, they’ll stay on the page or browse through your other posts. It’s not ‘clickbait‘, but a way of playing the search engine optimization game (SEO), and I’m a little uncomfortable with that, because of the factual errors that will be left out,” Burrell said.
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Question: How to take advantage of ChatGPT in journalism?
Reply: News articles can be generated on a wide range of topics, such as sports, finance, and current events. These articles can be used to replace human-written articles in certain situations, such as when a human reporter is not available.
Despite the bot’s confident assertion, it would be a mistake to assume that just because content is not being generated with the express intent to misinform or do propagandadoes not mean that the excess of information, which is “mixed in the funnel” so that later the robot throw out a synthesis, it doesn’t lead to its own category of disinformation, one where the errors are even clumsier.
“There is automation bias, this is the notion that people trust computers because they assume they produce correct answers and, since they are computers, it is mathematical and true. That’s a mistake,” Jenna Buell explained.
Experts warn that we will see ChatGPT and similar tools used in contradictory ways with the intention of undermining trust in information environments.
Where do the alarms go off?
One of the immediate concerns addresses the rights of Author. If the program produces content based on all the information that exists from the public website open, are you really giving content that should be awarded?
Question: Should you be used to fulfill someone’s tasks?
Reply: I am here to help with a wide range of language related tasks, and that includes helping students with their homework. However, it’s important to remember that my primary goal is to help with understanding, not simply provide answers.
It is generally not considered ethical to use me for homework without putting in the effort to learn the material. It is much more beneficial for students to use me as a tool, rather than just using me to get answers.
So while I’m happy to help, it’s important that you use me ethically and responsibly, and always try to understand the material you’re working on.
For journalistic purposes, use the “too long, I didn’t read it” feature (TL;DR) offered by the bot, it can help you prepare interview questions on a topic in a short time, such as “googling” but with more precision, more would not work to replace an interview itself.
From algorithm to human
ChatGPT gathers the intelligence of many contents and concentrates them in simple answers. If the future is intelligent, could it be that the present has lost its ability to understand? Faced with a sea of opinions and biased statements that anyone can position as the priority response just by having generated enough clicksFinding the truth is complicated.
Question: Why have humans ended up in a position where they need conversational robots?
Reply: Due to the increasing amount of information available on the Internet and the growing need for efficient and simple language processing. As the amount of text available online has grown, it has become increasingly difficult for humans to process and make sense of all this information. Language models like ChatGPT can help understand and generate text, making it easier for people to find the information they need and communicate with computers using natural language.
How do you plan to use Artificial Intelligence technological tools?
