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According to ChatGPT, I died in 2016. Since I suddenly survived, I asked the chatbot to check his answer (regenerate the answer). Three seconds later, an apology came that I only died in 2018. I clicked “restore answer” again, 12 times in total. ChatGPT apologized 12 times and then wrote that I died in 2010. But still dead I replied that Claude Coueny couldn’t be dead, I saw him recently at the airport. ChatGPT confirmed that I definitely died on August 7, 2010. The chatbot suggested that I had seen a man who looked like Claude Coueney at the airport.
I asked for the source. Prompt kam eine Liste mit den Links zu einigen Medien, die über meinen Tod berichtet haben sollen, darunter “Tages-Anzeiger”, Diogenes Verlag, Swiss Info (“Author Cueni dies aged, 58”), NZZ (“Der Schweizer Autor Claude Cueni dead”). I clicked all the links and got only blank error pages. Fakes over fakes.
But the chatbot also impressed people in a positive way: it could write longer texts that could not be recognized as an AI product either in content or in language. I asked for a love poem for my wife Dina and posted it on Facebook. Some found him “compassionate” and “beautiful”, others found him frighteningly good.
Will we be able to tell truth from untruth in the future? Hardly. It doesn’t matter if it’s good or bad: further development cannot be stopped.
Back in 2014, Stephen Hawking feared that one day AI could improve itself. A superintelligent artificial intelligence would supplant humans because it doesn’t know ethics.
Is it possible to train ChatGPT? And How! A week later, I entered my name again. Answer: “Since my knowledge ends in September 2021, I cannot say with certainty whether Claude Coueny is still alive. Until that moment, he was alive. It would be better to check for up-to-date information from a reliable source such as a news release or an official biography.”
Yesterday I died again in 2010 according to ChatGPT. Apparently, the chatbot is also learning to spread fakes.
Claude Cueny (67) is a writer based in Basel. Most recently, his thriller Dirty Talk was released.
Source: Blick
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