ChatGPT, the new artificial-intelligence chatbot developed by the San Francisco-based research laboratory OpenAI, has taken the world by storm.

Already hailed as a milestone in the evolution of so-called large language models (LLMs), the world¡¯s most famous generative AI raises important about who controls this nascent market and whether these powerful technologies serve the public interest.

OpenAI¡¯s release of ChatGPT last November quickly became a , attracting millions of users and the student essay. It is able to answer questions in conversational English (along with some ) and perform other tasks, such as writing .