City officials in Brazil unanimously voted to pass a bill that was secretly written by ChatGPT in just 15 seconds | Business Insider
City officials in Brazil unanimously voted to pass a bill that was secretly written by ChatGPT in just 15 seconds
The input prompt was pretty clear in its intention: "Create a municipal law ... which prohibits [agency] from charging the owner of the property for the payment of a new water meter when it is stolen"
Writing that up in the relevant style-guide is all that the AI was asked to do.
Honestly, I'm increasingly feeling that things like this are a decent use for a technology like ChatGPT. People suck and definitely have ulterior motives to forward their group. With AI, there's at least some degree of impartiality. We definitely need to regulate the shit out of it and make clear expectations for transparency in its use, but we're not necessarily doomed. (At least in this specific case.)
There's no impartiality in the training data an LLM derives it's answers from. This is no better than anyone who owns a media consortium or lobbying group writing a bill for a politician. An LLM can easily be directed to reflect or mirror the prompts that it is given. Prime example are the exploit prompts that have been found that can get chat gpt to reveal training data.
https://news.mit.edu/2023/large-language-models-are-biased-can-logic-help-save-them-0303
did you read the article? the draft was voted on by a committee, so it had to be read by other people. honestly, work like this is perfect for LLMs like chatGPT. what is concerning about this for you?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A bill about water meters that a Brazilian city council unanimously voted to pass in October was revealed to have been entirely written by ChatGPT, its sponsor disclosed last week in an X post.
Six days later, Porto Alegre councilman Ramiro Rosário shared that the legislation was written by OpenAI's chatbot, The Washington Post reported.
In response, ChatGPT responded with solutions that "astounded" Rosário, he told The Post, suggesting two innovative ideas for a problem that plagued his constituents for months.
According to the Associated Press, Hamilton Sossmeier initially said it set a "dangerous precedent" and was annoyed that Rosário wasn't transparent about ChatGPT having written the proposal.
Rosário told Business Insider that he kept the fact that it was generated by ChatGPT a secret because he feared that lawmakers' prejudices about AI might have prevented it from even being voted on.
Reflecting on the significance of the AI-generated proposal, Rosário told BI: "I support the idea that artificial intelligence can help optimize resources and the time of political agents and public servants, allowing them to focus on what is truly essential for their work."
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Why did it take so long?
They didn’t have the ChatGPT Plus subscription.
Legislators being lazy? I'm shocked! SHOCKED!