Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT and Beyond: AI: Concerns

• AI tools collect user information that cannot be deleted - and may share information with third-party vendors.  Consider this privacy concern as you use these tools. 
• AI can produce sexist, racist or otherwise biased results
• AI can produce erroneous or misleading information - including making up citations for articles, books that do not exist(!)   
• AI might not include up-to-date information.
• AI may produce output that is not unique.  See OpenAI (which includes ChatGPT) 's Terms of Use 

See OpenIA.ChatGPT: Optimizing language models for dialogue and scroll down to "limitations."  

Carpenter, Todd A. (2023, January 11).  Thoughts on AI's impact on scholarly communications?  An interview with ChatGPT.  Scholarly Kitchen. 

Chen, Brian X. (2022, December 21). How to use ChatGPT and still be a good person. New York Times. Chen notes some of the limitations of ChatGPT including a reminder that the results may look plausible and yet be incorrect(!)    Results may be biased based on the data, text, images given to create the AI.  

Koplin, J., & Hatherley, J. (2022, December 19).  Guest post: It has become possible to use cutting-edge AI language models to generate convincing high school and undergraduate essays. Here's why that matters.  Practical Ethics.  

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Internet ethics (Includes AI)  

Nolan, Beatrice.  (2023, January 15). This man used AI to write and illustrate a children's book in 1 weekend.  He wasn't prepared for the backlash.  Business Insider.  

Thompson, Ben. (2022, December  5). AI Homework  Stratechery.  Good descriptions of ChatGPT creating some misleading and incorrect information for a homework assignment.