Definition
Plain language
The popular chatbot you type questions into and it writes back in plain language.
As stated in the literature
OpenAI's consumer-facing conversational assistant built on the GPT family of large language models, widely used for text generation, coding help, and tutoring.
Why it matters: It brought conversational AI to everyday users, making powerful language models accessible to people who never write a line of code.
For example, a student stuck on a homework problem can type it into ChatGPT and get a written explanation in seconds.
Heard on the show
“ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — they all answer more like college-educated liberals than like the average American.”Episode 015 — The Audit Number Isn't What You Think: Sycophancy and the Case Against Single-Prompt Bias Tests