A February 2023 study in PLOS Digital Health found that ChatGPT 3.5 was capable of passing the United States Medical Licensing Examination. In medical education, it can explain concepts, generate case scenarios, and be used by students preparing for licensing examinations. Many companies adopted ChatGPT and similar chatbot technologies into their product offers. The Guardian questioned whether any content found on the Internet after ChatGPT’s release “can be truly trusted” and called for government regulation. In June 2023, hundreds of people attended a “ChatGPT-powered church service” at St. Paul’s Church in F\u00fcrth, Germany. Between March and April 2023, Il Foglio published one ChatGPT-generated article a day on its website, hosting a special contest for its readers in the process.<\/p>\n
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Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “fathers of AI”, voiced concerns that future AI systems may surpass human intelligence. In July 2023, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a civil investigative demand to OpenAI to investigate whether the company’s data security and privacy practices to develop ChatGPT were unfair or harmed consumers. In June 2025, OpenAI reported increased use of ChatGPT for China-origin influence operations. In late March 2023, the Italian data protection authority banned ChatGPT in Italy and opened an investigation. Their leaders emphasized their earlier caution regarding public deployment was due to the trust the public places in Google Search. It is the most popular AI chatbot as of August 2026, with an estimated 79% of the market share according to StatCounter.<\/p>\n
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Shortly after the bug was fixed, users could not see their conversation history. In March 2023, a bug allowed some users to see the titles of other users’ conversations. Despite this, users may jailbreak ChatGPT with prompt engineering techniques to bypass these restrictions. The company then worked with a team of 170 psychiatrists, psychologists, and physicians to prepare responses for users exhibiting mental health emergencies.<\/p>\n
The chatbot has also been criticized for its limitations and potential for unethical use. Proponents say that it has the potential to transform numerous professional fields, and it has instigated public debate about the nature of creativity and the future of knowledge work. ChatGPT accelerated the AI boom, an ongoing period marked by rapid investment and public attention toward the field of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n
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Some, including Nature and JAMA Network, require full disclosure of any use of text-generating tools, and prohibit listing a chatbot as a co-author. In July 2023, the FTC launched an investigation into OpenAI over allegations that the company scraped public data and published false and defamatory information. OpenAI said it has taken steps to effectively clarify and address the issues raised; an age verification tool was implemented to ensure users are at least 13 years old. Italian regulators assert that ChatGPT was exposing minors to age-inappropriate content, and that OpenAI’s use of ChatGPT conversations as training data could violate Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation.<\/p>\n