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The dark side of the shiny AI tool ChatGPT

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Wanjiku Mwaura | Abu-Bakarr Jalloh | George Okach
January 27, 2023

This new Artificial Intelligence technology, ChatGPT, can answer any sort of questions or write you an essay or news article. But there’s a dark side to it that involves 200 Africans. 

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