Let's talk about the ethics of using Chatgpt.
This goes for any use of Chatgpt.
I'm not here to be the morality police of what you should or shouldn't do.
I think everyone is going to have their own moral compass and they'll ultimately decide how they can
use Chatgpt.
They can see determine if what they're doing with chatgpt is ethical or not.
I think for me, the line is crossed between what's ethical and not.
When you are using Chatgpt to do something that you are supposed to be doing yourself and you're claiming
that it is your own writing.
So if you're a student in school and you're just using an essay written by Chatgpt, then I feel like
that is unethical versus if I'm writing a blog article and I'm just trying to help and provide information,
it's not for a class where the purpose is to learn how to write or to learn about a subject and to prove
that you have learned how to write about a subject, then providing great information that AI technology
can do better or just as good or with assistance of chatgpt.
I am comfortable doing that.
Am I going to be doing that for all of my web content?
No, not at all.
I don't think that that's not the game that I play as a business myself, but I think that's just an
example of what how the line of what's ethical or not can can be drawn.
Just one example.
So at the end of the day, you're going to have to decide what you think is ethical or not.
Something that I tied with ethics is the this idea of like, how good is AI ultimately going to get
in the future and what are people going to be doing to prevent AI based text.
Is there going to be a push to ban AI based text or not?
And the truth is that this AI technology is going to continue to grow.
It's going to continue to improve.
And there are chatgpt checkers now that potentially someday will be not be able to to work.
I want to show you an example of that.
So in the student essay writing lesson, I brought up this list of writing prompts.
I'm going to show you another example.
So here's an example.
Do machines represent a threat to humans?
I'm going to ask Chatgpt Write a 500 word essay or just say article on this prompt.
And so Chatgpt is going to work this out.
Now, The New York Times also links to an article about this topic.
So we have some text that's already written and we can copy and paste this.
What I'm going to do is copy and paste this into GPT 0.me, which is a AI text checker, and if I paste
this text and I choose get results, it gives us back the results that the text is likely to be written
by entirely by a human.
That's good because it should be.
This is a New York Times article that is written by what we assume is a person.
Okay.
And I think that's also an ethical line when if you have a byline that you are written by Michael Gonchar,
but you are using Chatgpt, that's another issue, I think on a technical website where a lot of times
companies are outsourcing text, you're using ghostwriters, you're not necessarily having a byline,
then that's maybe not as bad.
Again, it's up to your ethical and I'm interested to know what you think is ethical or not.
Some people might just think anything written with Chatgpt is unethical.
Some might think that anything goes.
But here.
Let's go.
Now we have this essay written by Chatgpt.
I'm going to paste it.
Just to show you that I had to sign up for an account to continue using this.
But let's go ahead and check this text.
And it comes back that it's likely entirely written by AI.
And you can see that the perplexity score, the burstiness score, these are the measurements that it
uses to determine whether text is written by a AI or not.
And of course you can go in there and then you could add your own ideas, your own thoughts to try to
improve it and make it less likely to be marked as written by AI.
But again, this goes back to the ethics of it.
Is that what you want to do?
Are you trying to get away with something?
And that's probably ultimately the compass that you need to listen to.
Are you trying to get away with something using chatgpt or are you using it as a tool?
I've found that in all of the things that we've taught you in this class, a lot of it is just using
it as an assistant in using this tool as a way to not only speed up the process we're doing things,
but also to do it in a better way, like responding to student questions, assisting in creating social
media posts, rewriting an article into an email, those kinds of things that just speed up our work.
And at the end of the day, though, it's something to have a conversation about.
It's something to think about and it's something we'll continue to to be thinking about as the AI gets
better and better.
All right.
If you have any thoughts about this, I'd love to hear it.
Let us know in the comments of the course or in the Q&A.
We'd love to hear your thoughts.
About what?
Is ethical and what is not.
Cheers.