So The Washington Post looked at nearly 200,000 English-language conversations from the research data set WildChat, which includes messages from two AI chatbots built on the same underlying technology as ChatGPT. These conversations make up one of the largest public databases of human-bot interaction in the real world.
Many bots have limited sexually explicit content, but that doesn’t stop people from trying to get around the rules. More than 7 percent of conversations are about sex, including people asking for racy role-play or spicy images.
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More than 1 in 6 conversations seemed to be students seeking help with their homework. Some approached the bots like a tutor, hoping to get a better understanding of a subject area.
Others just went all-in and copy-and-pasted multiple-choice questions from online courseware software and demanded the right answers. The bots usually obliged.
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“There’s no instruction manual out there,” said [Wharton associate professor of AI and business Ethan] Mollick. “As a result, you’re watching people explore in real time how to use this.”
