EDITORIAL: Woodward, Bernstein and ChatGPT
Will we see a day in the near future where a newspaper story regularly carries the byline of a chatbot rather than a human journalist? Count us among the skeptics that the kind of reporting that has brought down presidents or just the local coverage of papers like the Current about goings-on at municipal board meetings is ever going to be replaced by artificial intelligence.
The dangers of generative human-like text tools like ChatGPT have been flagged in this paper and others as applied to education. Our school district is on high alert for — and indeed has seen some cases of — students using the popular chatbot to cheat on writing assignments.
That and other applications will and should garner the attention of regulators. It’s also a positive sign that ahead of government interven...