Explained | Does ChatGPT have an ethics problem?
The HinduIn November 2022, OpenAI opened its most recent and powerful AI chatbot, ChatGPT, to users to test its capability. While it can close the gates for amateur coders looking to build malware, the more seasoned ones could trick the bot into correcting or enhancing malicious code they have partially developed. Cybersecurity firm Check Point’s researchers tested the bot by asking it to draft a phishing email for a fictional webhosting firm. If you believe this to be in error, please submit your feedback – your input will aid our research in this area.” While surreptitiously asking ChatGPT to write malware is one problem, another issue several coders face is the inherently buggy code the bot spews out. What we’ve noticed with AI writing, like these GPT models, is that they write in a statistically vanilla way,” Eric Wang, VP, Artificial Intelligence at plagiarism detection firm Turnitin said.