The co-founder of an online mental health support service is facing backlash for allegedly using an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to automate responses to users without their consent.
Rob Morris, who started the Koko mental health forum when he was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, posted about the experiment on Twitter before being accused of conducting an experiment on unwitting users in the comment thread.
“Some important clarification on my recent tweet thread: We were not paring people up to chat with GPT-3, without their knowledge. (in retrospect, I could have worded my first tweet better to reflect this),” Morris posted on Twitter….