The Ripple CTO has debunked ChatGPT's XRP conspiracy hypothesis.

Ripple's CTO has mocked an AI chatbot that claims Ripple can secretly control its blockchain via an unreported backdoor in the network's code.

Ripple's chief technology officer has responded to a conspiracy theory fabricated by the Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT, which claims Ripple secretly controls the XRP Ledger (XRPL).

According to a December 3 Twitter thread by user Stefan Huber, when asked a series of questions about the decentralization of Ripple's XRP Ledger, the ChatGPT bot suggested that while people could participate in blockchain governance, Ripple has "ultimate control" over XRPL.

When asked how this is feasible without participant consensus and publicly-available code, the AI claimed that Ripple may have "abilities that are not completely exposed in the public source code."

At one point, the AI stated that "the ultimate decision-making power" for XRPL "remains with Ripple Labs" and that the company could make changes "even if those changes do not have the support of the network's supermajority."

It also compared the XRPL to Bitcoin, claiming that the latter was "really decentralized."

Ripple CTO David Schwartz, on the other hand, has questioned the bot's logic, claiming that with that logic, Ripple could secretly control the Bitcoin network because neither can be determined from the code.

In the interaction, the bot was also shown to contradict itself, stating that the main reason for using "a distributed ledger like the [XRPL] is to enable secure and efficient transactions without the need for a central authority," which contradicts its statement that the XRPL is managed centrally.

ChatGPT is an AI research company OpenAI chatbot platform that is supposed to communicate "in a conversational style" and answer inquiries about nearly anything a user asks. It can even perform activities like designing and testing smart contracts.

According to OpenAI, the AI was trained on "vast amounts of data from the internet written by humans, including conversations," and as a result, some of the bot's responses may be "inaccurate, untruthful, and otherwise misleading at times."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the release on November 30 as "an early demo" and "very much a research release." According to Altman's December 5 tweet, the tool has already attracted over one million users.

In a Dec. 4 tweet, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin also commented on the AI chatbot, saying that the concept that AI "would be free from human prejudices has arguably died the hardest."

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