Carl T. BergstromMar 23, 2023

Yesterday I had a number of conversations with people working in the scholarly publishing sphere about what happens when AI chatbots pollute our information environment and then start feeding on this pollution.

As it so often, the case, we didn’t have to wait long to get some hint of the kind of mess we could be looking at.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation

Google and Microsoft’s chatbots are already citing one another in a misinformation shitshow

Microsoft’s AI chatbot Bing incorrectly reported the demise of Google’s AI chatbot Bard. It’s an early warning sign that this technology is fueling a massive game of misinformation telephone.

The Verge
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@ct_bergstrom Machine translation has been doing this crap for a decade or more.
Mar 23, 2023 at 5:01pmWeb