A rugby league website has been left with egg on its face after a match report from a NRLW game over the weekend went pear-shaped.
While a match report is not out of the ordinary, what made this article stand out was the opening five paragraphs.
Instead of an opening to the story about the match, the article contained prompts from ChatGPT on what should and shouldn’t be included.
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Here’s how things got underway:
“You are an experienced sports journalist. You are required to rewrite the following article. You are required to be extremely detailed. You are required to utilise Australian English spelling.
“You must ensure the article you generate is different from the original article to avoid plagiarism detection. You should not duplicate large portions of a paragraph or a sentence.
“You are required to use short paragraphs typical of an experienced journalist. Each paragraph should not exceed, at most, 3 or 4 sentences.”
The article then officially got underway once the prompts were done and dusted.
The story contains everything rugbly league fans would need and want to know from the outcome of the contest, but it’s hard to overlook the opening to it all.
Rugby league fans on social media platform Reddit couldn’t believe their eyes when the link was posted on the NRL page.
“I thought this was satire to begin with,” one wrote.
“What did I just read?” another added.
While a third wrote: “That is f***ing hilarious but also concerning at the same time.”
As fans far and wide online lost their minds, the article at the time of writing remained on the site with the prompts still there for all to see.
The company behind the ChatGPT app that churns out essays, poems or computing code on command released a long-awaited update of its artificial intelligence (AI) technology that it said would be safer and more accurate than its predecessor.
GPT-4 has been widely awaited ever since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late November, wowing users with its capabilities that were based on an older version of OpenAI’s technology, known as a large language model.
The company said the model is “more creative and collaborative than ever before” and would “solve difficult problems with greater accuracy” than its earlier versions.
While the AI may be safer and will help solve problems with “greater accuracy”, users still need to simply remember to remove the prompts from the beginning of the text before hitting publish.
news.com.au has reached out to the website for comment.
