Javier Morales Medium, Comillas Pontifical University and Diana Loyola Chavez, Comillas Pontifical University
A 49% stake in the OpenAI company, which owns ChatGPThas recently been acquired by Microsoft for 10 billion dollars.
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence platform with a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model that generates coherent and natural text in response to a variety of queries. For this, the model has been trained with a large corpus of text. This allows it to be used for tasks such as generating text, answering questions, and general natural language processing.
Academic Use: Integrity and Originality Issues
The use of language models such as ChatGPT for academic work raises a number of ethical concerns. Although they can make research and writing tasks more efficient, allowing scholars to focus on more complex and higher value-added aspects of their work, questions are raised about the integrity and originality of the work being produced.
One of the main ethical concerns with the use of language models for academic work is the problem of plagiarism. By using a template to generate text, it becomes much easier for people to present the work of others as their own. By simply paraphrasing automatically, that is, saying the same thing with other words and a different syntactic order, the same work can be passed off as another.
This can lead to a devaluation of the hard work and dedication required to produce research papers. Which in turn can also undermine the credibility of the academic community as a whole.
Plagiarism detection itself is much more difficult. This difficulty occurs because the text generated by the model will likely be different from the original source. As the researcher mentioned Daniel Gonzalez Padillagenerative language models such as ChatGPT can be used to generate plagiarized texts whose contents are always different from the originals and, therefore, difficult to detect.
lack of originality
Another ethical concern is that the use of language models for academic work could lead to a homogenization of ideas and points of view.
If people rely on these models, the text generated may be less diverse than text produced solely by human effort. This could lead to a stagnation of ideas and a lack of critical thinking. A type of thinking especially necessary within the academic community.
Lack of context and implications
Also, language models are not designed to provide a complete context for the information it generates, such as the language itself. ChatGPT recognize. The model generates text based on the input and your training data, but does not have the ability to understand the ethical, cultural, or political implications of the information provided.
This lack of reflection could lead to the spread of false information, bias, or even discrimination. All these ethical concerns must be taken into account before using these models for academic work.
It would also be appropriate to develop guidelines and best practices to ensure the integrity and originality of the work being produced.
intelligence with conscience
The philosopher Juan Arana affirms that consciousness is and will continue to be an unapproachable mystery for science. Moral conscience sets us free for moral action and transcends merely cognitive experience.
Whether the new and sophisticated advances will generate awareness is as uncertain as solving the riddle of why humans have it, continues Arana. Thus, he warns of the need to stop and think about scientific advances and their consequences. For this, he appeals precisely to conscience, affirming that it is a faculty irreducible to technical information systems. Human beings will have to think about ourselves and our productions in our professional and personal work.
Help?
As you may not have noticed yet, this article has been written with the help of ChatGPT. The purpose has been twofold: to test the model and to invite the reader to ask some questions.
Initially, we used ChatGPT by asking it what would be the ethical dilemmas that its own use could cause. He immediately gave us the idea of the three problems presented.
Then we wanted to delve into one of them and it led us to one of the cited authors. Finally, we take your own answers as references in some parts of the article.
We can say that the test was a success, but we could not stop asking ourselves the following questions that we believe transcend the academic world: should we resort to the use of these applications to satisfy the increasing demands of our work? What would be the limits of this use if accepted?
Intelligence with or without consciousness
In the words of the philosopher François Vallaeys, we must ask ourselves what is the ideal combination between intelligence without conscience (such as ChatGPT) and intelligence with conscience (ours). Without wanting to take a position on the issues raised, it is necessary to reflect on its use, usefulness and consequences.
According to Vallaeys, we cannot ignore the tools that help us simplify some tasks. But its use must be completed with the personal and empathic experience of the author of the work. It is this contribution that will allow us to deepen the dialogue and critical reflection.
It is about finding balances and possible solutions among all. Answers that go beyond simplistic outputs. Only in this way will we save what is different, what is amazing, what is non-trivial and true of the human condition.
Javier Morales MediumCo-director of the DBA in Management and Technology and Professor of the Department of Marketing, Comillas Pontifical University and Diana Loyola Chavez, Philosophy professor. Applied Ethics and Practical Philosophy, Comillas Pontifical University
This article was originally published on The Conversation. read the original.
