Netizens, Academicians, and Information Professionals' Opinions About AI With Special Reference To ChatGPT

Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac Subaveerapandiyan A Ph.D. Research Scholar Department of Library and Information Science Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangalore, Karnataka, India Email: subaveerapandiyan@gmail.com ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2149-9897 Abstract This study aims to understand the perceptions and opinions of academicians towards ChatGPT-3 by collecting and analyzing social media comments, and a survey was conducted with library and information science professionals. The research uses a content analysis method and finds that while ChatGPT-3 can be a valuable tool for research and writing, it is not 100% accurate and should be cross-checked. The study also finds that while some academicians may not accept ChatGPT-3, most are starting to accept it. The study is beneficial for academicians, content developers, and librarians. Keywords: Conversational Generative Pre-training Transformer (ChatGPT), Artificial Intelligence in Academia, Academic Writing with ChatGPT, Library Services Introduction The OpenAI-developed GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) model has a variation called ChatGPT. The GPT model was initially released in 2018 and trained using the Common Crawl, a sizable dataset of text from the internet. The Transformer design, revealed in a 2017 study by Google researchers, served as the model's foundation. Unsupervised learning was used to train the initial GPT model, which meant that it was trained on a sizable text dataset without any explicit labels or annotations.