Published: April 24th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Anyone on social media after the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT at the end of November 2022 was not only amazed at the technology’s impressive capabilities, but also gloated about how quickly it could be taken for a ride. For example, it was relatively easy to generate discriminatory or even extremist texts and instructions on how to build weapons.