How artificial intelligence changed the internet in 2023

 Although it does not look like it, ChatGPT is only a year old. It came out in November 2022, and a lot has changed in the meantime.

The rise of artificial intelligence systems is being called by many a new industrial revolution and has raised various philosophical and ethical questions. Therefore, it has been a big year for chatbots and other AI stuff – even though it is all happening fast, we still do not seem to be aware of what is changed.

During 2023 we learned that AI can "hallucinate", but not in a fun way. Those hallucinations make linguistic sense and contain some elements of reality. That is why it is not always easy to separate the truth from complete nonsense. The internet has been flooded with stupid things "said" by various chatbots, for example, Google Bard presented incorrect things as correct, while ChatGPT managed to ruin a lawyer's career.

Deepfake has entered the mainstream over the year, as new fake AI-generated content looks even more real. More and more tools available make it easy to spread lies and create images based on user-entered text. It affects all occupations, so, for example, fake songs are shared that sound like they were sung by famous bands, and famous people are put in situations they have never been in.

The media began publishing articles written by AI, angering both readers and journalists. AI tools are affecting other businesses as well, although they are still in their early stages, so they write sometimes sounds like the composition of a high school student… or a robot. Workers are still being promised that AI tools will help them organize and save time, but that does not seem to be the case for lawyers.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft are all racing to see whose generative AI system will be better.