ChatGPT: Can You Tell a Real Tweet From One Written By an AI Chatbot?
Are you ready for a world where super-intelligent robots faithfully impersonate people? To help see what that might look like, The Wall Street Journal deployed ChatGPT, a free (for now) Artificial Intelligence trained on a huge dataset researchers gathered through 2021, which recently became a viral hit. We asked it to compose tweets in the style of public figures and institutions to see if anyone could distinguish them from the real thing.
We included specifics in our prompts to the AI: write a tweet by Neil deGrasse Tyson about the universe. The topics we picked were based on the author’s previous tweets.
The quiz that follows is designed to look like it includes real tweets from verified accounts, but only one is actually written by a person. Can you spot the genuine tweet?
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Please answer all the questions to receive a score
The full potential for AI is starting to come into view, and the possible applications, obviously, stretch far beyond fake tweets. OpenAI says it’s against their policy to create misleading content, but it’s difficult to prevent. ChatGPT can generate coherent essays and pithy digests from basic prompts, and some theorists imagine that one day it could perform complex tasks done by humans, such as, ahem, writing news articles. If you weren’t ready for all-knowing robots, the time is nearing.
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Are you ready for a world where super-intelligent robots faithfully impersonate people? To help see what that might look like, The Wall Street Journal deployed ChatGPT, a free (for now) Artificial Intelligence trained on a huge dataset researchers gathered through 2021, which recently became a viral hit. We asked it to compose tweets in the style of public figures and institutions to see if anyone could distinguish them from the real thing.
We included specifics in our prompts to the AI: write a tweet by Neil deGrasse Tyson about the universe. The topics we picked were based on the author’s previous tweets.
The quiz that follows is designed to look like it includes real tweets from verified accounts, but only one is actually written by a person. Can you spot the genuine tweet?
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Please answer all the questions to receive a score
The full potential for AI is starting to come into view, and the possible applications, obviously, stretch far beyond fake tweets. OpenAI says it’s against their policy to create misleading content, but it’s difficult to prevent. ChatGPT can generate coherent essays and pithy digests from basic prompts, and some theorists imagine that one day it could perform complex tasks done by humans, such as, ahem, writing news articles. If you weren’t ready for all-knowing robots, the time is nearing.
Copyright ©2022 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8