In July 2020, OpenAI unveiled GPT-3, a language model that was easily the largest known at the time. Put simply, GPT-3 is trained to predict the next word in a sentence, much like how a text message autocomplete feature works.
Academics are increasingly concerned that AI could be co-opted by malicious actors to foment discord by spreading misinformation, disinformation, and outright lies. DALL-E, a version of GPT-3 generates images from text descriptions, potentially visually distorting reality.
In a large-scale survey leveraging OpenAI’s language model, the researchers found AI’s advice can “corrupt” people even when they are aware the source of the advice is AI.
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