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Regulation of AI Chatbots: What Can You Do?

Brodie Moy



Have you ever used ChatGPT to help you with a school assignment? Or messed with MyAI on Snapchat until it sent you a wacky response? If you answered yes to either of those questions, you've already been acquainted with AI chatbots- artificial intelligence-powered machines that try to replicate human conversation.


AI technology has been all the rage over the past few years but has really been around for decades (ever heard of Siri?). However, these widely accessible and impressively intelligent programs come at the cost of students' creativity, originality, and sincerity. In fact, nearly half of college students admit to submitting ChatGPT responses as their own work in school. This number indicates that AI chatbots have brought plagiarism to new heights, creating a generation estimated to have more plagiarists than ever before. Aside from damages to reputation, though, AI abusers often avoid repercussions due to the lack of knowledge and regulation regarding this method of plagiarism. So what can we do about this?


As a student, I believe schools must recognize that using AI chatbots to generate answers is definitively plagiarism, and school administrations should address and treat it as such in their school policies. Although many teachers have been proactive about detecting and voiding AI-generated responses, we need to bring the national understanding and disciplinary standard to a greater level. If students are educated on AI plagiarism as much as any other form of plagiarism, we can raise a generation of citizens who are equipped with the skills of honesty and integrity applicable to the modern world.


However, AI plagiarism is just one of the many problems regarding AI growth and development. Other issues affect users of a greater variety of purposes, for example: How much usage and conversation data can be collected for development? Can users opt out of data collection? What degree of censorship are the AI responses put through? Are the responses biased in any way?


With little dedication by tech giants or governments to solve complex problems like these, the solution must fall into the hands of each and every user. In other words, I'm asking, what do you think, reader? Should MyAI be able to read all your chats? Should ChatGPT finally just give in and use vulgar language when you ask for it? Because AI technology is so new and unfamiliar in our world, these are the questions that must be asked, however ridiculous they can get. You are not alone in whatever purpose you have used an AI chatbot for, and your opinion matters.


In other words, the only true solution to all issues regarding AI chatbots is to be proactive. Change your security and privacy settings to show what you, the user, are comfortable with. Write honest feedback to the developers as you use the programs. You can even personally write to companies, school boards, or even state governments with beliefs and concerns. You are witnessing the flourishing of a new era in modern technology: be involved in its growth.

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