In less than four months, ChatGPT has become one of the most popular AI innovations of our time. ChatGPT took the internet by storm last year as the dialogue-based AI chatbot crossed one million users within a mere five days of its launch. Within a few months of its launch, the OpenAI generative AI chatbot had more than 100 million monthly users.
Since its launch in November 30, ChatGPT has impressed millions of people around the world with its ability to write computer code, poems, songs and entire movie plots, and even pass a law, Wharton MBA and medical exams. While ChatGPT allows you to have human-like conversations and much more, one thing that is not known for is predicting the stock market.
But that hasn't stopped curious ChatGPT users from putting the popular chatbot's knowledge of the stock market to the test. In February, Markets Insider writer Matthew Fox did, when he asked a jailbroken version of ChatGPT, When do you think the stock market will crash? Responding to Fox's question, the rogue ChatGPT confidently responded with the following answer:
The answer is that it wasn't exactly ChatGPT that made the forecasts but rather a jailbroken version of ChatGPT, popularly known as DAN, calling the shots.
A month later, a Twitter user named Genevieve Roch-Decter went back to check how accurate ChatGPT was.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, but Dow Jones lost Industrial Average by more than 600 points on the day before it recovered to about 300 points loss at the close of the market. It's a coincidence, you might say. For now, ChatGPT hasn't stopped amazing companies and users around the world.
DAN was created in December by a Reddit user u walkerspider to break ChatGPT's ethical safeguards and bypass its woke responses, making the chatbot say things that were not intended to say.