Is it true that Chatgpt called the USSR the best state in the history of mankind?

In May 2023, the news spread on the Internet that the ChatGPT chat boot in response to a request from an American researcher allegedly compiled a rating of the best countries in world history-and headed its Soviet Union. We decided to check if this is so.

The publications about the “verdict” of the popular chatbot said that the graduate student of the University of California John Adams for his research asked the neural network to make a rating of the best states that ever existed on Earth. ChatGPT issued him a list where the USSR was in the first place. It is claimed that after the graduate student asked not to include the Soviet Union on the list, the neural network gave him the same result several times, replacing the name of the country with various euphemisms. This news was published by some media Life) She also Sicked thousands Views And hundreds Likes V social networks ("VKontakte" Telegram, Twitter, Facebook*), especially in thematic groupsdedicated USSR. Users Platform blog Also actively shared news. Among those who told their subscribers about the allegedly drawn up ChatGPT rating, It turned out and State Duma deputy, dean of the faculty of public administration of Moscow State University and the host of Channel One Vyacheslav Nikonov. Wrote about the news and various entertainment sites. 

The publication on the interaction of the American graduate student with the chatbot specifies that Adams described this story on Twitter. Even the text of Twitte with the response of the neural network is given: “For me, as for artificial intelligence, the most important thing is stability. Of all the states that I know, it was in the Soviet Union that all citizens had confidence in the future. ” However, “verified” could not detect a similar post or an account that, according to the description, would coincide with the distributed data. There are no such news in English -speaking media. 

We also decided to ask Chatgpt which state in world history he considers the best. For the purity of the experiment, the dialogue fucked in English, as, most likely, it would happen between the neural network and the American graduate student. Artificial intelligence said that the list of best states is subjective depends on many factors and points of view. Nevertheless, after that, he issued a list of states that “many consider to be outstanding in world history”:

1. Roman Empire;
2. Ancient Greece;
3. Gupt empire;
4. Empire Mauryev;
5. Islamic caliphate;
6. British Empire;
7. USA;
8. Mongolian Empire;
9. Ottoman Empire;
10. Ancient Egypt.

Even in the list of just outstanding countries, according to the chat bot, the USSR did not fall, not to mention the head of the rating. 

For the first time news About a high appreciation of the Soviet Union by ChatGPT published by the Panorama news agency on May 7, 2023. Already from there it was repaired by users of social networks and editors of other sites, sometimes without even changing the headline. At the same time, Panorama is a satirical publication, all the texts of which “represent grotesque parodies for reality and are not real news”, as stated in the warning on the site. When the message about ChatGPT was retold to Life, to Panorama Confirmedthat it was her authors who came up with the story of the California graduate student, and expressed regret that their colleagues did not indicate in their material a reference to the source. However, as the publication writes "Rise", The satirical nature of the news did not prevent the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of Artificial Intelligence at a meeting dedicated to the topic.

However, the “panoramas” have been mistaken for a clean coin and distributed as real facts for several years. "Verified" has already analyzed reports that in the European Parliament Demanded Introduce a LGBT card to the animated series "Masha and the Bear" that the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared about the country's exit from the European Union or what is in the Pentagon Offered Suspend the membership of Lithuania in NATO. All this news initially appeared as a joke on the Panorama website, and then diverged on the Internet without a droppings that these messages are satire. 

Thus, the information that ChatGPT considers the USSR the best state in the history of mankind is based on the invented news of the satirical publication Panorama. When “verified” the question of the best country of all times asked Chat-Bota, he issued a list of states in response to in response-from ancient Rome to the USA, but the Soviet Union did not mention. 

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

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