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ChatGPT: How do we police the robots?

If artificial intelligence is going to be widely adopted, some important legal issues have to be grappled with

    • The rise of ChatGPT is a wake-up call for everyone with a Wi-Fi connection to rethink how they engage in the cyberverse.
    • The rise of ChatGPT is a wake-up call for everyone with a Wi-Fi connection to rethink how they engage in the cyberverse. PHOTO: REUTERS
    Published Tue, Mar 14, 2023 · 12:58 PM

    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.

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