Article
A Critical Discourse Analysis of ChatGPT’s Role in Knowledge and Power Production
Arab World English Journal
(2024)
Abstract
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.
Keywords
- Capitalism,
- ChatGPT,
- communism,
- discourse analysis,
- knowledge,
- power production
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring April 24, 2024
DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.24093/awej/ChatGPT.12
Citation Information
Twana Nasih Ahmed & Karzan Aziz Mahmood. "A Critical Discourse Analysis of ChatGPT’s Role in Knowledge and Power Production" Arab World English Journal Vol. 1 Iss. 1 (2024) p. 184 - 196 ISSN: 2229-9327 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/arabworldenglishjournal-awej/1690/