A couple of AI chatbots got tangled in a web (no pun intended) of misinformation, full of self-referential citations — based on nothing and circulated widely across the internet in a digital echo chamber.
It’s turtles all the way down.
Via The Verge:
Right now, if you ask Microsoft’s Bing chatbot if Google’s Bard chatbot has been shut down, it says yes, citing as evidence a news article that discusses a tweet in which a user asked Bard when it would be shut down and Bard said it already had, itself citing a comment from Hacker News in which someone joked about this happening…
What we have here is an early sign we’re stumbling into a massive game of AI misinformation telephone…
Given the inability of AI language models to reliably sort fact from fiction, their launch online threatens to unleash a rotten trail of misinformation and mistrust across the web, a miasma that is impossible to map completely or debunk authoritatively. All because Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI have decided that market share is more important than safety.
