The AI also mistakenly claimed that Kelly won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, an award actually won by Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal. Kelly ended his piece by highlighting the potential for future AI to propagate false information if it relies solely on web data. This comes as Google confirms it is training its Bard AI with scraped web data, and OpenAI connects its ChatGPT tool to the internet.
Key takeaways:
- Washington Post Metro Columnist, John Kelly, asked AI tool ChatGPT to write his biography, but the results were inaccurate.
- ChatGPT correctly identified Kelly as a journalist and stated he was born in Washington, but made mistakes such as stating he was raised in Washington and had majored in journalism.
- The AI tool also incorrectly stated that Kelly had won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, which was actually won by Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal.
- Kelly highlighted the potential for future AI to spread false information if it were to use his incorrect biography as a source.