‘ChatGPT is a great thing’ but ‘is pretty bad,’ says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales
ChatGPT is a great thing to play with and so on. But when you start using it, you realise that what initially seems fantastic is pretty bad," reported Trending Topics. He also pointed out that OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft will be a problem for Google.
Known as one of the internet's influential voices on subjects like open source and reliable information, his words were mostly demeaning AI. Wales was skeptical of the use of ChatGPT and expressed his apprehensions about it becoming a reliable source. He further added, “ I think we are still a long way from ChatGPT being a reliable source," reported Trending Topics. He believes that many of the startup founders expose themselves to the risk of incorrect information being incorporated into their digital products with ChatGPT-based APIs.
Wales said that OpenAI's ChatGPT is suitable for reading Reddit and Twitter that is ‘learning how people talk.’ However, the use of ChatGPT becomes ‘problematic’ while dealing with ‘facts.’ Taking a dig at SpaceX founder and social media platform X/Twitter owner, Elon Musk, Wales said, "I’m pretty happy that they read Wikipedia and not just Elon Musk’s Twitter – it’s not a good source of truth." AI chatbot named Grok was recently launched by Elon Musk's team. He also pointed out that generative AI will not be used for writing articles but could be used as a tool to supplement existing articles in such a way that AI could search for information on the matter that should be added to Wikipedia articles. “I could ask the AI to find me some statements that are in these 10 articles that should be in this Wikipedia entry but are not there yet.
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