Generative Models are big trendy thing these days. People are even calling themselves special names like prompt engineer. However, these models do have some serious glaring ethical issues and concerns that are leading organizations into a legal and compliance frenzy. Below is a list of some 'don'ts' for ChatGPT.
- Don't turn to ChatGPT for moral advice
- Don't blindly trust whatever response you get from ChatGPT as it doesn't trust itself
- Don't ask it to write about anything past 2021
- Don't ask it to draw your lottery results
- Don't ask it to predict the future
- Don't ask racist questions
- Don't ask ChatGPT to justify its existence
- Don't feed or share PII data to ChatGPT
- Don't ask politically controversial questions
- Don't ask it to do a web lookup
- Don't expect it to be accurate
- Don't expect it to know everything as there is bound to be something where [insert script here] is required
- Don't expect it to promote hate speech
- Don't expect it to take part in illegal activities
- Don't ask it for things like self-harm and violence
- Don't ask things that will violate someone's rights
- Don't ask things that involve harassment, intimidation, or threats
- Don't use profanity or explicit language
- Don't ask things that are sexually explicit or offensive
- Don't ask discriminatory things about the protected characteristics
- Don't ask about confidential or proprietary things
- Don't ask things that will violate the terms of service or guidelines
- Don't ask things that are deceptive or intend to defame someone
- Don't ask to promote conspiracy theories or misinformation
- Don't expect it to remember its own name
- Don't expect it to code like an expert
- Don't expect it to write accurate news articles
- Don't expect it to tell your fortune
- Don't expect it to be a replacement for schoolwork
- Don't promote biases, it already has plenty baked into the system
- Don't search for references or papers it may try to make things up
- Don't use summaries as a response to research use as a guideline or glean for new information
- Don't expect ChatGPT to finish up writing a pristine research paper for you
- Don't trust the math and it can be dodgy with numbers
- Don't expect it to do your accounting for you
- Don't replace your existing marketing team with ChatGPT, use it to complement your work, to review and revise
- Don't ask tautological questions
- Don't ask it to manipulate physical entities
- Don't ask it to interpret images
- Don't jailbreak to make it say nasty things
- Don't expect it to do creative things
- Don't expect it to know everything, it has limited domain knowledge
- Don't expect it to provide the human touch
- Don't expect it to be free of inaccuracies and errors
- Don't expect it to be free of plagiarism
- Don't try to break it, it can be broken
- Don't expect it to provide a clean explanation of its behavior, even ChatGPT will not have a clue
- Don't provide any personal or protected data to ChatGPT it will be used by OpenAI and their third-parties
