The New York City Department of Education has reportedly banned access to ChatGPT, a popular artificial intelligence tool, over concerns it could harm students’ education and help prevent cheating.
The controversial free writing tool can generate human-like passages of text.
“”Access to ChatGPT is limited to NYC Public Schools Networks and Devices,” Department of Education spokeswoman Jenna Lyle first told Chalkbeat. important.
Launched on Nov. 30, ChatGPT is part of a broader set of technologies developed by San Francisco startup OpenAI.
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A ChatGPT prompt is displayed on a device near a public school in Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023.
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It’s part of a new generation of artificial intelligence systems that can converse and generate readable text as well as novel images and videos — though not necessarily facts or logic — on demand.
“Our goal is to get external feedback to improve our systems and make them more secure,” it said on the log, but noted that there were some limitations, including occasionally sharing incorrect information or “harmful instructions or biased content “.
The release promises that ChatGPT will admit mistakes when they are wrong, question “incorrect premises” and reject requests designed to generate offensive answers.
A public school in Brooklyn, New York City, Nov. 18, 2020.
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“ChatGPT is incredibly limited, but in some respects enough to give a misleading impression of greatness,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Twitter in December.
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“It would be wrong to rely on it for anything of importance now,” he added, noting that there is still a lot of work to be done in terms of “robustness and authenticity”.
This illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 5, 2022 shows the OpenAI logo displayed on a mobile phone screen and the ChatGPT website displayed on a laptop screen.
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“We don’t want ChatGPT being used for misleading purposes in schools or anywhere else, so we’re already developing mitigations to help anyone recognize text generated by the system,” OpenAI told the AP.
Fox News Digital requested comment from the New York City Department of Education and OpenAI, but did not immediately respond by the time of publication.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
