'Customizable' Upgrade Could Result in More Divisive ChatGPT Answers
Feel like ChatGPT is too tame with its answers? The program’s creator, OpenAI, is working on an upgrade that could unlock more personality and controversial takes from the popular chatbot.
“We believe that AI should be a useful tool for individual people, and thus customizable by each user up to limits defined by society,” the San Francisco company said in a blog post(Opens in a new window).
OpenAI mentioned the upcoming upgrade to address concerns that ChatGPT was programmed with a bias on politically and culturally sensitive topics. This includes users showing that ChatGPT will write positive poems about current US President Joe Biden, but not his Republican rival, Donald Trump.
To resolve the bias concerns, OpenAI is working on an upgrade that would give ChatGPT greater freedom to respond to a user’s query. “This will mean allowing system outputs that other people (ourselves included) may strongly disagree with,” the company said.
The news is already sparking concern that the customizable ChatGPT could end up promoting controversial ideologies or take sides in the US' culture war.
"Our hope was that OpenAI would open up their moderation policies to the public and live by them, centering harmed communities' voices, and striving to prevent harm. Instead, they appear to be doing THE EXACT OPPOSITE," tweeted(Opens in a new window) Liz O’Sullivan, a member of the National AI Advisory Committee.
However, the customization upgrade will still contain guardrails to stop ChatGPT from engaging in potentially malicious behavior. OpenAI also wants to prevent the chatbot from becoming a “sycophantic” AI that’ll “mindlessly amplify people’s existing beliefs.”
“There will therefore always be some bounds on system behavior. The
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