Tag: environmental justice

ChatGPT limited in producing environmental justice information on rural counties: US study
Technology

ChatGPT limited in producing environmental justice information on rural counties: US study

[ad_1] Researchers have discovered the limits to ChatGPT's ability to provide location-specific information about environmental justice issues, which they said possibly hint at the chatbot's geographic biases. The researchers at Virginia Tech University in the US asked ChatGPT to answer a prompt about the environmental justice issues in each of the 3,108 counties across the states of the country. ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, developed by OpenAI, that is trained extensively on massive amounts of data in natural language. Such AI tools, also called large language models, can process, manipulate and generate textual responses based on users' requests, or "prompts".The researchers found that while ChatGPT displayed an ability to identify location-specific envir...