Ripple’s CTO has responded to a conspiracy theory fabricated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT, which alleges that the XRP Ledger (XRPL) is being secretly controlled by Ripple.
According to a thread December 3 tweet from user Stefan Huber, When asked a series of questions about the decentralization of Ripple’s XRP Ledger, the ChatGPT bot suggested that while the public could participate in the governance of the blockchain, Ripple has “ultimate control” of XRPL.
Asked how this is possible without the consensus of the participants and their publicly available code, the AI alleged that Ripple may have “abilities that are not fully disclosed in the public source code.”
At one point, The AI said that XRPL’s “ultimate decision-making power” “still rests with Ripple Labs” and the firm could make changes “even if those changes are not supported by the super-majority of network participants.”
He also contrasted XRPL with bitcoin (BTC) saying the latter was “truly decentralized.”
However, Ripple’s CTO, David Schwartz, has questioned the logic of the bot, arguing that with that logic, Ripple could secretly control the Bitcoin network, since it cannot be determined from the code either.
If it’s final argument is that Ripple Labs “may have” some secret way to control the XRP Ledger that cannot be determined from the public code, why not argue that Ripple Labs “may have” some secret way to control the bitcoin blockchain that cannot be determined from the code?
—David “JoelKatz” Schwartz (@JoelKatz) December 5, 2022
If your final argument is that Ripple Labs “may have” some secret way to control the XRP Ledger that cannot be determined from the public code, why not argue that Ripple Labs “may have” some secret way to control the blockchain? of bitcoin, which also cannot be determined from the code?
The bot also contradicted its own statements in the interaction, stating that the main reason for using “a distributed ledger like the [XRPL] is to enable secure and efficient transactions without the need for a central authority”which contradicts your claim that the XRPL is managed centrally.
ChatGPT is a chatbot tool built by AI research company OpenAI that is designed to interact “conversationally” and answer questions about almost anything a user asks. You can even perform some tasks like creating and testing smart contracts.
According to OpenAI, the AI was trained on “large amounts of human-written internet data, including conversations” and warned that because of this, some of the bot’s responses may be “inaccurate, false and sometimes misleading.”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on November 30 that this was “an early demo” and was “very much a research release.”. According to a Tweet of Altman of December 5, the tool already has more than a million users.
The founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, also spoke out about the AI chatbot in a December 4 tweet stating that the idea that AI “will be free from human bias has probably died the hardest.”
Of all the optimistic 00s era takes, “AI will think logically from first principles so it will be free from human biases” has probably died the hardest. https://t.co/5rz33AEgKb
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) December 4, 2022
Of all the optimistic ideas of the 00s, “AI will think logically from first principles, so it will be free from human bias” is probably the one that has died the hardest.
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