In the article entitled “Three Years of ChatGPT: How Does AI Threaten Public Communication?”, which recently appeared in the University of Bremen’s online magazine, ZeMKI member Cornelius Puschmann explains the risks of automated bots for democratic discourse.
Three years after the release of the first ChatGPT version, AI is an integral part of society, business, and science, but it is also controversial. AI bots promote polarization and weaken trust. However, transparency and greater platform responsibility are central to a resilient democracy, emphasizes Cornelius Puschmann, who heads the “Digital Communication and Information Diversity” lab at ZeMKI.
How social bots work, why they amplify polarizing content so effectively, and what consequences this has for our discussion behavior can be read in the entire up2date article.
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