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Hundreds of thousands of us use chatbots on daily basis, although we don’t really know the way they work or how using them affects us. In a bid to deal with this, the FTC recently launched an inquiry into how chatbots affect children and teenagers. Elsewhere, OpenAI has began to shed more light on what persons are actually using ChatGPT for, and why it thinks its LLMs are so liable to making stuff up.
There’s still plenty we don’t know—but that isn’t stopping governments from forging ahead with AI projects. Within the US, RFK Jr. is pushing his staffers to make use of ChatGPT, while Albania is using a chatbot for public contract procurement. Proceed with caution.