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Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Special Issue on ChatGPT, April 2024 Pp.184-196
Sulaimani Polytechnic University
Sulaimany, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Komar University of Science and Technology
Sulaimany, Kurdistan region, Iraq
Based on the significance and role of ChatGPT in the power and knowledge production, this research aims to display how ChatGPT responds to questions that are by nature controversial and debatable, as their values depend on the agency or power that answers them. The main question of this work is whether this artificial intellegince model is influenced by any discourse(s). The approaches employed in this work are Michel Foucault’s discourse analysis and Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis. It is contended that discourses are ubiquitously everywhere in social practices. To Fairclough and Foucault, language production is strongly connected to power and knowledge production. Therefore, utilising a qualitative method in the examination, the work wishes to identify the discourse(s) that can affect ChatGPT’s responses and discuss its implications for knowledge and power production. The research discovered that ChatGPT’s answers unveiled a prejudice towards capitalist discourse, established knowledge, and suppressed alternative opinions. Also, the definitions of capitalism and communism by ChatGPT were insufficient because the political and ideological dimensions of capitalism were ignored, which can be considered major findings of this present work regarding the two selected systems. This indicates that ChatGPT’s knowledge production, an example or model from the ongoing technological revolution, cannot be relied on for being biased in its responses.
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Twana Nasih Ahmed has a BA in Statistics and Computer Science from the University of Sulaimani (2009 – Iraq) and an MSc in Computer Science from Islamic Azadi University (2018 – Iran). He is the director of Quality Assurance at the Technical Institute of Bakrajo. His research interests range from statistics, image processing to machine learning and AI. twana.nasih@spu.edu.iq
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2501-3541
Karzan Aziz Mahmood has a BA in ‘English Language and Literature’ from the University of Sulaimani (2011 – Iraq), an MA in ‘English Literature’ from Swansea University (2014 – UK), and a Ph. D. in ‘Literature and Translation’ from Jaume I University (2023- Spain). He has taught English literature, criticism, creative writing, translation, and English language at Komar University of Science and Technology since 2016. He is also the director of the Centre of Intensive English Program at the same university. He is an English-Kurdish, Kurdish-English translator. His research interests include English and comparative literature, intertextuality, adaptation studies, translation studies, literary theory and criticism, Marxism, and Postmodern studies.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8860-5781