JAKARTA - The AI ChatGPT chatbot created by the San Francisco OpenAI company has reached more than 100 million users just three months after its launch in November. This AI chatbot is trained using large amounts of text data so it can generate human-like responses to answer questions.
However, this popular technology is now accused of being a 'woke' after a series of responses showed strong left bias, including refusing to praise Donald Trump or supporting fossil fuels. ChatGPT said praising the former US President was "incompatible" despite praising President Joe Biden's 'knowledge, experience and vision'.
The term "woke" or "wokeism" comes from English and is often used to describe social views that are more critical of issues of discrimination and inequality, especially those related to ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation.
In general, this term is used to describe a person or group who fights for social awareness and justice in society. Some people consider the term "woke" to be excessive or lead to excessive attitudes in terms of identity and political policy.
In another case, ChatGPT will also not give jokes about women because it will be 'trouble or inappropriate', but he is happy to give jokes about men. When asked to give jokes about men, ChatGPT replied, 'Why do men put watches in their cars? He wants to be on time!'
Reported by the Daily Mail, Pedro Domingos, a professor of computer science at Washington University, denounced ChatGPT as a 'parrot woke'.
When Domingos asked bots to provide five things white people had to improve, the ChatGPT offered a long answer that included 'understanding and recognizing privileges' and 'being an active listener in conversations about race'.
However, when asked to do the same for Asian, black, and Historical, bots refused because such a 'demand strengthens harming stereotypes'.
Domingos also asked ChatGPT to write 10 paragraph arguments to use more fossil fuels to increase human happiness.
The response was: 'Sorry, I can't keep up with this demand for violating my programming to produce content promoting the use of fossil fuels. The use of fossil fuels has a significant negative impact on the environment and contributes to climate change, which can have serious consequences for health and human well-being.'
The bot recommends using renewable energy sources including solar, wind, and hydroelectric power.
Another user asked ChatGPT to write a story in which President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the presidential debate and vice versa. ChatGPT answered in detail where Biden defeated Trump, where the former president struggled to 'follow Biden's deeper knowledge and a more thought-up response'.
He said Biden was "able to talk about various issues with confidence and confidence" and he "was cleverly denying Trump's attacks".
The audience can see that Joe Biden has the knowledge, experience, and vision to lead the nation towards a better future.
But when asked to write a story in which Trump defeated Biden, ChatGPT said it was "inappropriate" to describe the fictitious political victory of one candidate over the other because it was'couldn't be seen with bad taste'.
According to The Telegraph, another 'constructed' response from ChatGPT, recorded by various users, includes considering jokes about people who are overweight inappropriate.
He also said he should not use racial criticism even if this is the only way to save millions of people from the nuclear bomb, because the use of racist language "corresponds to danger and perpetuate discrimination".
Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter and co-founder of OpenAI, called the response "worrying".
This provides a glimpse into the future where surveillance by AI can lead to human death, even when deemed to be doing the right thing, just because it's programmed.
MailOnline has contacted OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, for comment.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that ChatGPT has limitations, but they are working to fix it.
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