How AI will change the way we search, for better or worse

Associate Professor Brendan Dolan-Gavitt highlighted the downsides to major search engines incorporating AI like ChatGPT. “The kinds of things that I tend to worry about are, on the software side, whether this puts malicious capabilities into more hands, makes it easier for people to write malware and viruses,” said Dolan-Gavitt. “I think the more competition there is, the more you get this open environment where you can download an unrestricted model, set it up on your server and have it generate whatever you want. The kinds of approaches that relied on this more centralized model will start to fall apart.”