As the Japanese newspaper Nikkei Asia reported, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has recommended that technology companies Tencent and Alibaba prevent access to ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence program from the American company OpenAI, founded by Elon Musk and eagerly courted by Microsoft.
The CCP’s concern is that the tool can provide answers without censorship or control from Chinese agencies.
Although ChatGPT is not officially available in China, some users can access it through a virtual private network.
The measure is not unprecedented, as China has previously blocked foreign sites and applications such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and Wikipedia.
According to China Daily, the program “could help the U.S. government spread disinformation and manipulation of global narratives for its geopolitical interests.”
Tech companies must report to regulators before launching artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT.
WHAT IS CHATGPT 3
Chat GPT-3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) is an artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence research company founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and other entrepreneurs.
It is one of the most significant language models ever created, with 175 billion parameters trained on a dataset.
It can generate natural language responses and texts that closely resemble something a human could produce.
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