OpenAI isn’t doing enough to make ChatGPT’s limitations clear

“May occasionally generate incorrect information.”

This is the warning OpenAI pins to the homepage of its AI chatbot ChatGPT — one point among nine that detail the system’s capabilities and limitations.

“May occasionally generate incorrect information.”

It’s a warning you could tack on to just about any information source, from Wikipedia to Google to the front page of The New York Times, and it would be more or less correct.

“May occasionally generate incorrect information.”

Because when it comes to preparing people to use technology as powerful, as hyped, and as…