pWotD Episode 3068: ChatGPT

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With 157,882 views on Thursday, 25 September 2025 our article of the day is ChatGPT.

ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released in 2022. It currently uses GPT-5, a generative pre-trained transformer (GPT), to generate text, speech, and images in response to user prompts. It is credited with accelerating the AI boom, an ongoing period marked by rapid investment and public attention toward the field of artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI operates the service on a freemium model. ChatGPT's website is among the 5 most-visited websites globally as of 2025.

By January 2023, ChatGPT had become the fastest-growing consumer software application in history, gaining over 100 million users in two months. Users can interact with ChatGPT through text, audio, and image prompts. It has been lauded as a revolutionary tool that could transform numerous professional fields. At the same time, its release prompted extensive media coverage and public debate about the nature of creativity and the future of knowledge work.

Despite its acclaim, the chatbot has been criticized for its limitations and potential for unethical use. It can generate plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers known as hallucinations. Biases in its training data have been reflected in its responses. The chatbot can facilitate academic dishonesty, generate misinformation, and create malicious code. The ethics of its development, particularly the use of copyrighted content as training data, have also drawn controversy. These issues have led to its use being restricted in some workplaces and educational institutions and have prompted widespread calls for the regulation of artificial intelligence.

This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:25 UTC on Friday, 26 September 2025.

For the full current version of the article, see ChatGPT on Wikipedia.

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