Watermarking ChatGPT, DALL-E and others could help protect against fraud and misinformation

Viral AI-generated images of events that didn't really happen can spread misinformation

AI makes plagiarism harder to detect, argue academics – in paper written by chatbot

Lecturers say programs capable of writing competent student coursework threaten academic integrity

An academic paper entitled Chatting and Cheating: Ensuring Academic Integrity in the Era of ChatGPT was published this month in an education journal, describing how artificial intelligence (AI) tools “raise a number of challenges and concerns, particularly in relation to academic honesty and plagiarism”.

What readers – and indeed the peer reviewers who cleared it for publication – did not know was that the paper itself had been written by the controversial AI chatbot ChatGPT.

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Noam Chomsky explains the difference between ChatGPT and "True Intelligence"

There's a new op-ed in The New York Times from Noam Chomsky and two of his academic colleagues — Dr. Ian Roberts, a linguistics professor at University of Cambridge, and Dr. Jeffrey Watumull, a philosopher who is also the director of artificial intelligence at a tech company. — Read the rest

GPT as a spiritual counselor

Robot Spirit Guide is GPT put to work on religious guidance.

I've seen it all, and want to share my knowledge with you. Ask me any question, and I'll consult the supernatural below.

I'll stick with my OMM 0000 confessional elizabooth, thank you. — Read the rest

Elon Musk deeply concerned that robots can be programmed to not be racist

There's a great quote by the Irish revolutionary James Connolly about the true power of capitalism:

Apologists for capitalism claim that the profits of capitalists are the reward for their brains and skill, but here we observe the profits are reaped by those who bring neither brains, skill, nor technical knowledge – nothing but cash to purchase the brains and muscle of others.

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