ChatGPT: How do we police the robots?

CHATGPT’S seemingly endless knowledge on unlimited topics is born of its consumption of nearly 300 billion words scraped from the Internet. The bot is one of history’s most voracious readers. Its diet: books, articles, websites, blogs, and online posts. If a document is publicly accessible online, the odds are that ChatGPT has read and digested it.

Its applications are similarly boundless. The bot can code, it can create literary works (“write a Fibonacci poem about char kway teow”) and can even, through its sister platform DALL-E 2, produce works of art based on existing artistic styles.

Artificial intelligence’s (AI) broad uses give rise to a range of legal problems and, before the technology becomes ubiquitously embedded in our daily lives, some boundaries will need to be erected.