CHATGPT
It was in 2015 that Sam Altman with Elon Musk and other investors created OpenAI, with a fundraising of more than a billion dollars. Two years later, Elon Musk left the ship due to a conflict of interest with his company Tesla.
It is in 2020 that OpenAI presents GPT-3, a new language model"Generative Pre-trained Transformer" (pre-trained generative transformer), which works through natural language messages, which allows it to respond and understand in a natural way to a human. It is with this technology that we can create chatbots and virtual assistants that speak the same language as humans.
It is thanks to GPT-3 that OpenAI released in 2022 ChatGPT, a portmanteau composed of “chat” (dialog box)” and “GPT” (the pre-trained language tool). It has the ability to generate articles, emails, poems, any type of editorial content in any field and even computer coding.
ChatGPT is trained via supervised learning and reinforcement with human-created data for model training. Thus ChatGPT cannot provide false information, if we try to ask him to tell an impossible story, he will base himself on real knowledge by bringing a current point of view. It also has in memory the old requests made by the users in order to be able to improve in its answers.
These writing skills are so incredible that they pose a real problem within the education system, which has had to question the assessment tools in order to avoid any cheating using AI. The other problem noted is that of the use of personal data, he is accused of not respecting the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the collection of information and accuses him of not asking the age to ChatGPT users. The company indeed claims in its FAQ to collect in particular the names, contact details, places of residence and payment card information of its users.
Another scandal was brought to light, in particular on the working conditions of employees in Kenya who are supposed to moderate hate speech, they must read sexist and racist texts or describe self-mutilation, incest or child pornography in order to learn how to I can spot them. On nine-hour days, where each employee must read more than 200 texts of between 100 and 1,000 words, for a salary of 1.32 and 2 dollars per hour.
Other issues have also been pointed out such as the use of ChapGPT in the creation of malware, cybercrime and disinformation. The other problem is that of copyright by plagiarizing everything that can be found on the net before 2021 without citing the references of the authors.