There are lots of articles about bad use cases of ChatGPT that Google already provided for decades.
Want to get bad medical advice for the weird pain in your belly? Google can tell you it’s cancer, no problem.
Do you want to know how to make drugs without a lab? Google even gives you links to stores where you can buy the materials for it.
Want some racism/misogyny/other evil content? Google is your ever helpful friend and garbage dump.
What’s the difference apart from ChatGPT’s inability to link to existing sources?
Edit: Just to clear things up. This post is specifically not about the new use cases that come from AI. Sure, Google cannot make semi-non-functional mini programs automatically, and Google will not write a fake paper in whole for me. I am specifically talking about the “This will change the world” articles, that mirror stuff that Google can do exactly like ChatGPT can.
It’s precisely ChatGPT’s inability to link the sources that is the concern.
also, the fact that Google is so bad about this stuff should give us some pause about directly handing even more incredibly powerful, not-well-curated tools to a constituency as broad as “everyone with an internet connection”. it’s actually insanely bad this a problem with Google, we’ve just normalized it there and it sucks!
At the heart of the issue I think is the fact that GPT can trick enough people into believing that there’s organized thought behind what it says. So people have started trusting and using AI in spaces that it doesn’t belong. Some fields have been resistant, but when there are places that operate under the incentive of cheapest labor wins (lowest bid contracts, for example), AI as a whole has been infiltrating under the guise of capitalism in places it shouldn’t currently (or perhaps ever) exist.
The fact that there are lawyers already facing repercussions of using chatgpt in their cases citing things that don’t exist proves it