ChatGPT “helped” me write a novel – and created a ruthless serial killer

What started as a Roald Dahl-style tale of the unexpected turned into what ChatGPT describes as a “psychological thriller” featuring a nighttime chase through a forest, writes Simon Jones.

The unexpected twist was that one of the side characters turned into a cold-blooded killer. That certainly wasn’t in the story arc.

Nor were the warnings from ChatGPT that the developing narrative had violated its own usage policies, due to the graphic violence and cold-blooded nature of the killings – with moral ambiguity, too.

How quickly ChatGPT drifted to the dark […]

Review sites get tough with generative AI – but it’s just the beginning (updated)

Review sites get tough with generative AI – but it’s just the beginning

(Updated to add input from G2) Enterprise review sites are finally taking a firm stance against reviewers using generative AI in review submissions. It’s hardly a surprise, except it took them almost eight months. And, of course, the outright ban also raises further questions.

The story so far – it wasn’t long after ChatGPT launched in late November 2022 that people started tapping into its skills to create plausible-sounding reviews for enterprise review sites like G2, TrustRadius and Gartner Peer Insights.

With a few prompts, ChatGPT […]