ChatGPT has piqued the interest of many fields, particularly in the academic community. GPT-4, the latest version, starts supporting multimodal input and output. This study examines social media posts to analyze how the Chinese public perceives the potential of ChatGPT for educational and general purposes. The study also serves as the first effort to investigate the changes in public opinion since the release of GPT-4. According to the analysis results, prior to GPT-4, although some social media users believed that AI advancements would benefit education and society, some believed that advanced AI, such as ChatGPT, would make humans feel inferior and lead to problems such as cheating and a decline in moral principles, while the majority remain neutral. Interestingly, public attitudes have tended to shift in a positive direction since the release of GPT-4. We present a thorough analysis of the trending shift and a roadmap to ensure the ethical application of ChatGPT-like models in education and beyond.

翻译：ChatGPT已引起众多领域的兴趣，特别是学术界。最新版本GPT-4开始支持多模态输入和输出。本研究通过分析社交媒体帖子，考察中国公众如何看待ChatGPT在教育及通用领域的潜力。该研究也是首次尝试探究GPT-4发布后公众舆论的变化。根据分析结果，在GPT-4发布前，虽然部分社交媒体用户认为人工智能的发展将惠及教育和社会，但也有用户认为像ChatGPT这样的高级AI会让人产生自卑感，并导致作弊和道德准则下降等问题，而大多数用户持中立态度。有趣的是，自GPT-4发布以来，公众态度呈现积极转变趋势。我们深入分析了这一趋势演变，并提出了确保ChatGPT类模型在教育及其他领域伦理应用的路线图。