ChatGPT: evolution or revolution?

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In the last few years large language models (LLMs) have inspired an increasingly sophisticated academic debate about their ethical implications (see e.g., Weidinger et al. 2021). With OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT, on November 30th, 2022, this discussion has now moved mainstream. The new chatbot was released by way of research preview “… to get users’ feedback and learn about its strengths and weaknesses” (OpenAI, 2022). In the following week more than a million users tried out the new chatbot (Vallance, 2022). The authors of this editorial could not resist the temptation either. So, we asked ChatGPT to write a column about contemporary Greece and its ambivalent relationship with its glorious ancient past in the style of NYT Op-Ed columnist Thomas Friedman. …