Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer responded to a conspiracy theory created by artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT claiming the XRP Ledger (XRPL) is somehow secretly controlled by Ripple.
According to Twitter on December 3rd, thread By user Stefan Huber when asked a series of questions about the decentralization of Ripple’s XRP ledgera ChatGPT bot suggested that Ripple has “ultimate control” over XRPL, while people can participate in blockchain governance.
Asked how this was possible without the consensus of participants and the code being published, the AI said it is possible that Ripple has “abilities that are not fully disclosed in the public source code.” I claimed.
At one point, AI said that XRPL’s “ultimate decision-making power” “still resides with Ripple Labs,” and the company said “even if those changes don’t win the support of the overwhelming majority of network participants. We can make changes,” he said. ”
Also XRPL and Bitcoin (Bitcoin) the latter described as “truly decentralized”.
However, Ripple CTO David Schwartz questioned the bot’s logic, which allowed Ripple to covertly Take control of the Bitcoin network Because neither can be determined from the code.
If the final argument is that Ripple Labs “may have” secret ways of controlling the XRP Ledger that cannot be determined from the public code, then Ripple Labs is the secret controlling the Bitcoin blockchain. Why don’t you claim that you “might have” the method of Judging by the code?
— David “JoelKatz” Schwartz (@JoelKatz) December 5, 2022
The bot was also shown to contradict itself in interactions. [XRPL] This contradicts the statement that XRPL is centrally managed.
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ChatGPT is a chatbot tool built by AI research firm OpenAI, designed to interact “conversationally” and answer almost any question you ask.You can even complete some tasks like Create and test a smart contract.
The AI was trained on “a vast amount of human-written data from the internet, including conversations” according to Because of this, it warned that some of the bot’s responses may be “inaccurate, untrue, and potentially misleading.”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said during the Nov. 30 release that this was an “early demo” and a “very research release.” According to data from December 5th, the tool has already been used by more than 1 million users. Tweet by Altman.
ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin He also sided with AI chatbots in a Dec. 4 tweet, stating that the idea of AI being “free from human prejudice probably ended the hardest.”
Of all the takes on the optimistic 00s, “AI thinks logically from first principles, so it’s free from human bias” probably died the hardest. https://t.co/5rz33AEgKb
—vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) December 4, 2022
