The U.S. House of Representatives has banned the use of Microsoft's AI assistant Copilot by congressional staffers. According to a directive from Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor, Copilot poses a risk to users by exposing data to unauthorized cloud services. Microsoft plans to introduce a set of AI tools for government agencies with higher security and compliance requirements this summer. The ban applies to the commercial version of Copilot; the government version is still under review. In June 2023, the House of Representatives restricted the use of ChatGPT for employees and banned the free version. Many companies block access to consumer chatbots like ChatGPT for fear of data leakage, relying on business versions with guarantees that data won't be used to train future models.
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ChatGPT likes to use a number of hackneyed phrases. This allows experienced ChatGPT users to reliably recognize ChatGPT text even without detectors, which don't work anyway. X user Jeremy Nguyen has now investigated how often one of these phrases, "delve", appears in medical and scientific publications. The word appeared four times as often in 2023 as in 2022. Correlation is not causation, of course, but the statistics speak for themselves and give an idea of how generative AI might be influencing scientific publishing. Interestingly, there was also an increase in the word before the first ChatGPT year, 2023. Spell checkers, some of which also suggest synonyms and are often based on LLM technology, may play a role here.
