The Latest Breaking News from ChatGPT

AI chatbot ChatGPT is in hot water, as it faces a first-of-its-kind defamation claim in Australia.

Google took our memory. Could AI take away our creativity now, too? As the chatbot ChatGPT grows in popularity, Ceri Radford asks what will happen to the creative mind if screenplays, song lyrics, emails and birthday cards become as easy to generate as it is to ask Google Maps for…

A local mayor was surprised to learn that the bot said he served prison time. You would be too.

In American writer Mark Twain’s autobiography, he quotes — or perhaps misquotes — former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as saying: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”

Schools and universities are panicking about artificial intelligence (AI) and cheating. But AI presents far more significant threats to equity in education.

The article (Pranshu Verma & Will Oremus) (paywalled), which was prompted by Jonathan Turley's USA Today piece, just went up. The general analysis should be familiar to our readers (see the Large Libel Models thread), but here is a comment from an OpenAI spokesperson: When users sign up for ChatGPT,…

New studies on ChatGPT and Google Bard have shown that the AI chatbots will happily write conspiracy theories or worse.

We ask ChatGPT a financial question about tax-filing deadlines, extensions and refunds. See what a human expert thinks of the AI answer.

Financial Review (Australia) [Byron Kaye] reports (see also Reuters): Brian Hood, who was elected mayor of Hepburn Shire, 120 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, last November, became concerned about his reputation when members of the public told him ChatGPT had falsely named him as a guilty party in a foreign bribery…