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OpenAI's artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT is the fastest-growing app in history.

This is according to a UBS study (via CBS News(Opens in a new window)), which claims that ChatGPT had 13 million unique visitors per day in January, which is more than double the visitors it had in December. ChatGPT has only been around two months (can you believe it?), and it already has 100 million monthly users, the study concluded.

ChatGPT is only two months old, but we've spent the time since it debuted debating how powerful it really is — and how we should regulate it. 

Just because it can be helpful doesn't mean it can't also be harmful: Students can use it to write essays for them, and bad actors can use it to create malware. Even without malicious intent from users, it can generate misleading information, reflect biases, generate offensive content, store sensitive information, and — some people fear — degrade everyone's critical thinking skills due to over-reliance. Then there's the ever-present (if a bit unfounded) fear that RoBoTs ArE tAkInG oVeR.

And ChatGPT can do all of that without much — if any — oversight from the U.S. government.

OpenAI, the AI research firm behind ChatGPT, has released a new tool to distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated text.

Even though it’s impossible to detect AI-written text with 100% accuracy, OpenAI believes its new tool can help to mitigate false claims that humans wrote AI-generated content.

In an announcement, OpenAI says its new AI Text Classifier can limit the ability to run automated misinformation campaigns, use AI tools for academic fraud, and impersonate humans with chatbots.

OpenAI, the company behind DALL-E and ChatGPT, has released a free tool that it says is meant to “distinguish between text written by a human and text written by AIs.” It warns the classifier is “not fully reliable” in a press release and “should not be used as a primary decision-making tool.” According to OpenAI, it can be useful in trying to determine whether someone is trying to pass off generated text as something that was written by a person.

The tool, known as a classifier, is relatively simple, though you will have to have a free OpenAI account to use it. You just paste text into a box, click a button, and it’ll tell you whether it thinks the text is very unlikely, unlikely, unclear if it is, possibly, or likely AI-generated.

Die technische Entwicklung wirkt sich vor allem auf den Bildungssektor aus. Künstliche Intelligenz wie ChatGPT eröffnen Schülern und Studenten neue Möglichkeiten bei der Erstellung von Texten, beim Programmieren und der Recherche. Doch können Schulen und Unis mit der KI zusammenarbeiten oder sind Verbote nötig? Der heutige Umgang mit der Software entscheidet, ob die Bildungseinrichtungen von der KI profitieren oder ob sie den Anschluss an die künstliche Intelligenz verlieren.

ChatGPT-Firma lässt Programmierer die KI trainieren
OpenAI, das Unternehmen hinter ChatGPT, hat Hunderte von Freiberuflern aus Schwellenländern zum Trainieren von Programmierfähigkeiten der KI eingesetzt.

OpenAI hat freie Mitarbeiter in Regionen wie Lateinamerika und Osteuropa angeworben. Laut einem Bericht von Semafor wurden 60 Prozent der Mitarbeiter zum Data Labeling eingesetzt, um Bilder, Audioclips und andere Informationen für das Training von künstlicher Intelligenz aufzubereiten.

PARIS, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Sciences Po, one of France's top universities, has banned the use of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-based chatbot that can generate coherent prose, to prevent fraud and plagiarism.

ChatGPT is a free programme that generates original text about virtually any subject in response to a prompt, including articles, essays, jokes and even poetry, raising concerns across industries about plagiarism.

Is ChatGPT the new teacher’s aide?

Teachers have said that the artificial intelligence tool, which can write anything with just a simple prompt, could save them hours of work—a game-changer at a time when teachers have a lot on their plates and stress levels are high.

Even so, some teachers say they worry that using the tool could strip away some of the creativity and relational aspects of teaching or introduce bias into lessons or feedback on student work.

One use of ChatGPT, the superstar chatbot created by generative AI firm OpenAI, is drafting privacy notices. Ironically, ChatGPT itself is under scrutiny from data protection experts.

While the various uses of ChatGPT – and other generative AI – can raise ethical and legal concerns regarding the violation of data privacy, as Infosecurity previously investigated, some experts are questioning the very existence of OpenAI’s chatbot for privacy reasons.

Amidst rising concerns from educators and bans on students using ChatGPT, Business Insider reports that OpenAI is working on a solution to this problem. A recent tweet from Tom Goldstein, Associate Professor of machine learning at the University of Maryland, explained how accurate it might be at detecting watermarked text that’s written by ChatGPT.

ChatGPT can write code. Now researchers say it's good at fixing bugs too
A developer's new best friend? ChatGPT is up with the best when it comes to automatically debugging code. But whether it saves developers' time or creates more work remains to be seen.

Investors are confident that generative AI can solve a myriad of problems - and be the next start-up boom - says Business Insider.
Generative AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, are already being adopted by schools, hospitals and marketing departments.
Investors believe generative AI can become as ubiquitous as the cloud or the internet.

Some of the world’s biggest academic journal publishers have banned or curbed their authors from using the advanced chatbot, ChatGPT. Because the bot uses information from the internet to produce highly readable answers to questions, the publishers are worried that inaccurate or plagiarised work could enter the pages of academic literature.

Several researchers have already listed the chatbot as a co-author on academic studies, and some publishers have moved to ban this practice. But the editor-in-chief of Science, one of the top scientific journals in the world, has gone a step further and forbidden any use of text from the program in submitted papers.

La technologie d'IA de ChatGPT repose actuellement sur 175 milliards de paramètres et a été entraînée avec des centaines de milliards de textes. La base de connaissances s'arrête toutefois à 2021. ChatGPT est à l'aise dans des domaines divers et variés, y compris pour générer du code.

Avec ChatGPT Plus, OpenAI propose un abonnement à 20 dollars par mois. Pour le moment, la disponibilité concerne uniquement les États-Unis. L'invitation de personnes sur liste d'attente va commencer au cours des prochaines semaines. D'autres pays s'ajouteront ultérieurement.

OpenAI has launched its first subscription plan for ChatGPT, opening up the popular AI model for premium use just two months after its public launch.

The new plan, called ChatGPT Plus and announced in a company blog post on Wednesday, will charge subscribers $20 for monthly use of ChatGPT’s tools. Users will get priority access to ChatGPT “during peak times,” faster responses and “priority access to new features and improvements,” the company wrote. The subscription is only available initially in the United States and will roll out to a waitlist first.

OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the announcement. The company also noted in its post that a waitlist is now available for an upcoming ChatGPT API.

The maker of ChatGPT is trying to curb its reputation as a freewheeling cheating machine with a new tool that can help teachers detect if a student or artificial intelligence wrote that homework.

The new AI Text Classifier launched Tuesday by OpenAI follows a weeks-long discussion at schools and colleges over fears that ChatGPT’s ability to write just about anything on command could fuel academic dishonesty and hinder learning.

OpenAI cautions that its new tool – like others already available – is not foolproof. The method for detecting AI-written text “is imperfect and it will be wrong sometimes,” said Jan Leike, head of OpenAI’s alignment team tasked to make its systems safer.

Realtors have picked up ChatGPT as a tool for writing listings, CNN reported.
One agent said the tech could be used to spice up descriptions in a video. 
Realty experts say AI may be here to stay in the industry. 

"C'est un outil assez phénoménal, la puissance est juste incroyable, mais il y a des effets pervers" et "des impacts négatifs", a expliqué samedi 28 janvier sur franceinfo Myriam Dubois-Monkachi, directrice de la formation initiale de Sciences Po Paris qui vient d'interdire l'utilisation de ChatGPT à ses étudiants, "sous peine d'exclusion". Cet outil, capable de rédiger des textes en réponse à des questions simples, inquiète particulièrement les enseignants. Certains étudiants ont déjà eu recours à ChatGPT pour produire des dissertations.  "Ce n'est pas du tout équitable" et "on sort du cadre qui régit les exigences académiques d'une formation dans l'enseignement supérieur", a-t-elle rappelé.

ChatGPT : Le temple de la Culture Générale ne veut pas d'une IA générale
Technologie : Sciences Po interdit l'utilisation de l'outil ChatGPT d'OpenAI. L'école précise que cette mesure est destinée à "garantir la qualité et l’intégrité de ses formations et de ses diplômes".

It's also quite sobering, as there are already countless examples of how it changes the game for black hats of all stripes. In one of the first proofs-of-concept, NYU professor Brendan Dolan-Gavitt used ChatGPT to exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability. Other examples include writing malware with lightning speed and crafting convincing, grammatically correct phishing emails.

The weaponization of AI within cybersecurity is not new, but what excites me the most about ChatGPT is its potential for closing information security's biggest gap: the lack of sufficient talent, in both breadth and depth of cybersecurity skills (i.e., specializations). To illustrate this further, here are three ways ChatGPT will change infosec in 2023.