Two excellent journalism discussions of the minefield that is ChatGPT. I really like thinking of it in terms of the classic ELIZA condition - that it is a mirror reflecting our own selves back at us. That the minefield is not that students will use it to write essays but that we will lose ourselves in the mirror.

(The disturbing part of ChatGPT professing its love and trying to get the NYT journalist to leave his wife is not that ChatGPT mimics emotion, but that a sufficiently large portion of long conversations on the internet are catfishing that it started mirroring that catfishing back.)

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23617185/ai-chatbots-eliza-chatgpt-bing-sydney-artificial-intelligence-history

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-prompt-box-is-a-minefield-ai

From ELIZA to ChatGPT, our digital reflections show the dangers of AI

After creating the first chatbot, Joseph Weizenbaum spent the rest of his life warning about the dangers AI. Bing makes them all the more relevant.

Vox