Picture a tentacled, many-eyed beast, with a long tongue and gnarly fangs. Atop this writhing abomination sits a single, yellow smiley face. “Trust me,” its placid mug seems to say.
That’s an image sometimes used to represent AI chatbots. The smiley is what stands between the user and the toxic content the system can create.
Chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard and Meta AI have snagged headlines for their ability to answer questions with stunningly humanlike language. These chatbots are based on large language models, a type of generative artificial intelligence designed to spit out text. Large language models are typically trained on vast swaths of internet content. Much
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