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

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

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

AI chatbots are running a massive game of misinformation telephone.

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

"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, and someone else used ChatGPT to write fake news coverage about the event. "