You can’t have escaped the hype surrounding the OpenAI-powered writing tool ChatGPT. For once, it might even be deserving of that hype, though it’s still early days as far as such things go. For sure, you can ask it to produce a blog on most any given subject and in any style and get a surprisingly good read out of it.
Unless, that is, you know the subject really well, and then you’ll spot the errors within. Of course, most people are unlikely to be experts in the field of whatever news article, blog piece or social media posting they’re reading. This means they’ll take it at face value and believe every word. The days of rapid-fire, automated, fake news content production are truly with us. As someone who depends on two things for my living – a certain degree of expertise and an ability to write about it in an informative, accurate and understandable way – that’s a challenging thought.
ChatGPT is a scary thing. I’m sure it will be used to provide content that is published without “AI-attribution” but rather presented
