Republican state Rep. Alex Kolodin said he used ChatGPT to write a subsection of House Bill 2394, which tackles AI-related impersonations of people by allowing Arizona residents to legally assert they are not featured in deepfake videos.
“I used it to write the part of the bill that had to do with defining what a deepfake was,” Kolodin told NBC News. “I was really struggling with the technical aspects of how to define what a deepfake was,” he said. “So I thought to myself, ‘Well, why not ask the subject matter expert, ChatGPT?’”
The bill was signed into law by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs on Tuesday. The legislation allows Arizona residents to obtain a court order stating the person identified in the deepfake video is not them.
Kolodin said that the portions ChatGPT created were precise.
“In fact, the portion of the bill that ChatGPT wrote was probably one of the least amended portions,” he said.
Hobbs was not aware of the portion of the legislation being authored by ChatGPT.
“I kind of wanted it to be a surprise once the bill got signed,” Kolodin said, noting that it was part of the plan.
As long as he fact checked what chatgpt told him, who cares?
Chatgpt is a great starting place for a subject you don’t yet understand, but it should always be fact checked before you apply it to whatever scenario you’re in.
Purposely not disclosing the usage of a tool that is widely reported and known to provide false information until after it is signed into law shows a pretty clear lack of ethics.
The problem is GTP is learning from our existing knowledge base. If legislation is trying to amend a broken system, we don’t want AI to be modeling that system. This case seems fairly harmless, an AI takeover isn’t what we should be worries about.
Something like institutional racism being replicated in a more insidious manner is the concern. Relying on these closed systems potentially gives the type of people who implemented the discrimination being modeled to turn around and say, ‘See, we were right all along!’ If results are held up on a pedestal and AI is integrated into our political and legal systems, it may make changing society for the better much harder.
We shouldn’t universally condemn tools like ChatGTP being used in this way, but we should tread very carefully when it comes to large scale societal changes.
Agreed. Chatgpt is a great starting place. Nobody should take what it says as fact, but use what it says to help you research further.
But he can’t fact check it - he was using it because he didn’t know enough about the topic to write that section in the first place.
I was suggesting ChatGPT to a social worker I know who was complaining about the number of reports he has to write - AI could bang out a first draft that he could then work up into the final report because he knows the cases and the relevant laws and procedures. If he didn’t know the subject inside and out it could be dangerous. Even then, he should flag it up for others to look it over in case of hallucinations.
Could be, but not necessarily. It’s good to use as a starting point for further research. It’s good to introduce you to terminology used in the field you’re researching if you don’t know it already.
Knowing what to search for is very very valuable. This can speed up your understanding of a subject significantly.
All joking aside, this is the answer.