The New York City Department of Education has reportedly banned access to ChatGPT, a popular artificial intelligence tool. This is to prevent cheating, which can harm a student’s education.
A controversial free-text tool can generate human-like paragraphs of text.
“Access to ChatGPT is restricted due to concerns about negative impact on student learning and concerns about content safety and accuracy New York City Public School Networks and DevicesDepartment of Education spokesperson Jenna Lyle told Chalkbeat first.
ChatGPT launched on November 30th as part of a broader set of technologies developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI.
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A ChatGPT prompt will appear on a device near a public school in Brooklyn, NY on Thursday, January 5, 2023.
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It’s part of a new generation of AI systems that can converse and generate readable text and novel images and videos on demand, but not always factually or logically.
“Our goal is to get feedback from the outside to improve our system and make it more secure,” he said at the login, but he said inaccurate information and “harmful instructions and biased content.” Please note that there are restrictions, such as sharing occasionally.
The launch came with the promise of admitting when ChatGPT is wrong, challenging “wrong premises” and rejecting requests meant to generate offensive answers.
A public school in Brooklyn, New York City, November 18, 2020.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Twitter in December:
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“It would be a mistake to rely on it for anything important now,” he added, noting that much needs to be done regarding “robustness and truthfulness.”
This illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on December 5, 2022 shows the OpenAI logo on a phone screen and the ChatGPT website on a laptop screen .
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“We don’t want ChatGPT to be used in schools or elsewhere for misleading purposes, so we have implemented mitigations to allow anyone to identify the text generated by its system,” OpenAI told the Associated Press. We are already developing it,” he said.
Fox News Digital reached out to the New York City Department of Education and OpenAI for comment, but did not immediately respond at the time of publication.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
