The exponential growth in user acquisition and popularity of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence(AI) powered chatbot, was accompanied by widespread mainstream media coverage. This article presents a quantitative data analysis of the early trends and sentiments revealed by conducting text mining and NLP methods onto a corpus of 10,902 mainstream news headlines related to the subject of ChatGPT and artificial intelligence, from the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 to March 2023. The findings revealed in sentiment analysis, ChatGPT and artificial intelligence, were perceived more positively than negatively in the mainstream media. In regards to word frequency results, over sixty-five percent of the top frequency words were focused on Big Tech issues and actors while topics such as jobs, diversity, ethics, copyright, gender and women were poorly represented or completely absent and only accounted for six percent of the total corpus. This article is a critical analysis into the power structures and collusions between Big Tech and Big Media in their matrix of domination.
翻译:随着ChatGPT(一款基于人工智能的对话式聊天机器人)用户获取量和流行度的指数级增长,主流媒体对其进行了广泛报道。本文对2022年11月ChatGPT发布至2023年3月期间,与ChatGPT及人工智能相关的10,902条主流新闻头条语料库,采用文本挖掘和自然语言处理方法,进行了早期趋势与情感的量化数据分析。情感分析结果显示,主流媒体对ChatGPT和人工智能的感知更偏积极而非消极。在词频分析方面,超过65%的高频词汇聚焦于大型科技企业议题及其行动者,而就业、多样性、伦理、版权、性别及女性等话题则鲜有提及或完全缺失,仅占总语料库的6%。本文对大型科技企业与主流媒体在支配矩阵中的权力结构与合谋关系进行了批判性剖析。