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Argumentative Essay: Is Chat GPT Ethical? We’ve all grown up watching science fiction movies where AI robots take over the world,
and all hell breaks loose. Now, we live in a world where we must decide whether or not we should keep researching and advancing AI. The newest and trending version of AI is an artificial intelligence chat box called Chat GPT; it can answer questions or perform tasks and supposedly gives you a human-like answer within seconds (Garner). It sounds right out of a movie, doesn’t it? However, Chat GPT is inherently unethical because of how it is trained, the potential for misuse, and the fact that it is already being misused for misinformation. Chat GPT is trained based on data, books, articles, human knowledge, etc. Chat GPT is different from many other chatbot tools because of the way it is trained. The company hand-
picked and chose what information it wanted to be able to retrieve and where it retrieved it from. Then, based on the data it was trained on, it will answer your prompt or task by giving you a human-like answer. The difference is the human-like answers it provides and the data not coming
from everything on the internet. It is somewhat filtered. You may think this advantage makes Chat GPT way ahead of any other chatbot. However, the information given is not 100% guaranteed that it is true. Wanda Venter, a cybersecurity specialist of over twenty years, explains her research on Chat GPT and its answers; “Chat GPT doesn’t use the internet to locate answers. Instead it constructs a sentence word by word, selecting the most likely token that should come next based on its training. In other words, Chat GPT arrives at an answer by making a series of
guesses, which is part of why it can argue wrong answers as if they were completely true” (Venter). Venter explains how it will give you a false answer, meaning we cannot trust this source
because of its training. We cannot deem a chatbot ethical if we cannot trust it to give us credible answers. You do not make an ethical decision based on guessing every time. The boundaries of this chatbot are better than what we have seen in the past, but the risk is far greater than what we have seen in the past. If you are asking it a prompt, it is because you want an answer and most likely a truthful one. People hear that Chat GPT can give them answers in seconds based on information on the internet. They assume it has truthful information and trust it to complete many jobs. Chat GPT is unethical because of its training in that people can email the company and give information and input on Chat GPT to help train to improve it. These people are not getting credited; it is susceptible to copyright because of this. It also cannot be relied on to cite the information given correctly, and how can you check if you need to know where the data is coming from? Because Chat GPT is not trained in a good enough manner that we can fully trust it, it is unethical. The copyright and plagiarism of the answer it gives you is unethical. Chat GPT can be misused because of the public's lack of knowledge. People forget to do their research or do not care to, and they automatically trust that it will give them credible information and rely on it for specific tasks. Author Caitlyn Meisner, a reporter for Education Week articles, explains her report on Wichita Public Schools' use of AI: “The 50,000 student-
district, unlike many other districts across the country, embraced the new technology soon after it
was introduced last year. And educators there do not plan on stopping” (Meisner). Meisner explains how this school district has embraced AI. They do not plan on stopping the use of it, and
she goes into more detail on why that is and the pros and cons of the situation. They explain how they want to continue to use it, but they run into not being able to complete the tasks they ask for.
They often have to use it for inspiration rather than an answer. This is unethical because of the false information it is spreading. If you use it to get inspiration and base your inspiration on a wrong idea or copyrighted idea, you could end up plagiarizing, which is very unethical. Not to mention the tasks that this is being used for, just this last year, teachers, professors, and even managers of many workplaces have had to add the extra step of checking for AI similarity. This is for many reasons, mainly because Chat GPT is misused by many people, and they cannot trust it to do daily tasks in these fields. Imagine a manager of medical interns asked them to conduct a research essay on breast cancer. Your mother has just been diagnosed with breast cancer, and your mother’s medical team is relying on their interns to research ways to treat it. One of the interns uses Chat GPT to conduct their paper because of how busy they are. The doctor decides to use that research paper and try the ideas presented in it. If Chat GPT found unreliable information, then your mother would be risking her life based on Chat GPT's answers. This is extremely absurd and disturbing as a person’s life depends on it. Although this is the world we live in, people are over-trusting and lazy.
Why would we define Chat GPT as ethical if it cannot help in such a situation? Students are also using Chat GPT to complete their assignments. They are cheating and not doing their work, creating a new generation that thinks this is morally okay. Without these learning blocks, the next
generation will suffer in critical thinking skills, self-motivation, creativity, and so much more. John Bailey a reporter from Education Next, talks about the risks of students using AI. “Aside from the ethical issues involved in such cheating, students who use AI to do their work for them may not be learning the content and skills they need” (Bailey). Bailey explains the risk of the students using AI without talking about the ethical issues. Ethically, students are cheating, which is wrong; they are not learning and ultimately suffering because no one has claimed that Chat
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GPT is unethical. The misuse of Chat GPT is unethical because of the lessons it teaches and the problems it provides for future generations. Chat GPT is currently being misused for misinformation. Hackers, terrorists, and the average person can purposely or accidentally use Chat GPT and slowly start to build our society on lies. Chat GPT has been reported to have many different examples of political bias, racism, and false information. Bailey also explains how bias can be easily found in AI tools. Chat GPT was trained on specific data, but it was trained on such a massive amount of data that some of the
data had to have been biased. “If the data include student-performance information that’s biased toward one ethnicity, gender, or socioeconomic segment, the AI system could learn to favor students from that group” (Bailey). Bailey is explaining the process and steps it takes for an AI chatbot to learn to be biased. If it picks up on ideas or concepts of humans and data that humans have found, then it is more than likely to pick up bias and many other things. This is unethical because it is not a fair-sided answer given. People lie, spread rumors, and practice being biased every day. Now, all of these lies, rumors, and biased examples are being put into a chatbot that is being used by many, and now they are being spread everywhere. Will people slowly adapt to letting these lies and misinformation build in society? Chat GPT is unethical in undermining people's right to the truth. Morally lying is wrong, and being biased is wrong as well. Letting people use a system that does everything will engrave those concepts into our society. That provides no pleasurable end goal. Some might say that you could keep Chat GPT and use it for ideas or simple things it can
handle. Such as inspiration to get your brain flowing or proofreading an essay you wrote for your
college class. However, we do not live in a world where you can trust people to follow these simple guidelines. Our society has simple guidelines, such as not stealing or killing, although
people still break them. In the Open to Debate Podcast, Gary Marcus speaks about how he believes and has seen that Chat GPT will do more harm than good; he goes on to say, “that’s gonna be the largest consequence of ChatGPT, is it’s gonna undermine trust in society. Some by deliberate use from bad actors who are doing things, or are likely to do things like, um, make up a lot of misinformation around vaccines, the environment, and so forth” (Will ChatGPT do more harm than good). Marcus is explaining how our society works and how trust is the biggest issue here. We might be able to use it occasionally, but now, to be able to use it regularly and trust it is highly unethical. Is all the risks of this chatbot worth potentially making it easier for people in the future? Ethically, no, it is not. Chat GPT is unethically wrong because of its failure to provide trustworthy and credible answers. There are many flaws in this chatbot, and because of these flaws, you should not use it, whether it is in a professional aspect or not. It is very unethical due to the answers it gives, how it
was trained, and the lessons it teaches. People using it cannot say that it has given them a one hundred percent guarantee of credible information. It is based on millions of data sets. Some of which you may not know to be credible or ethical. That is why Chat GPT is unethical.
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