A ChatGPT/Bard Warning Story

Or why using LLMs to do research into anything you do not have sufficient knowledge of is dangerous

I decided to write my own title. Thanks for the suggestions, OpenAI

After all the breathless reporting about how LLMs are going to remake business as we know it, I decided to use both ChatGPT & Bard (you know, Google’s ChatGPT) to help me research towards a new venture I’m working to launch, a democracy technology venture generator.

To give you background, the crisis of democracy Israel has struggled with over the past five months has convinced me, among others, that representative democracy has been hacked by special interests and illiberal ideologies. If we want to live in a world free from coercion, we need to safeguard and strengthen liberal democracy and that requires upgrading our democratic practices.

Moving from Democracy 1.0 to Democracy 2.0 we will need to expand the ease of adoption of democratic approaches such as participation and deliberation through tech enabled services.

Given my experience over the past twenty years building social venture accelerators (PresenTense), a VC-backed mission driven technology company (mobileODT), and a commercialization platform for public-purpose technologies (CoVelocity), I’ve come to believe that we won’t be able to generate quality ventures aligned with these public goals…