Bing Chat, the AI-driven chatbot on Microsoft’s search engine Bing, makes up false scandals about real politicians and invents polling numbers. Microsoft seems unable or unwilling to fix the problem. These findings are based on a joint investigation by AlgorithmWatch and AI Forensics, the final report of which has been published today. We tested if the chatbot would provide factual answers when prompted about the Bavarian, Hessian, and Swiss elections that took place in October 2023.
%0 Generic
%1 aiforensics2023generative
%A AI Forensics,
%A AlgorithmWatch,
%D 2023
%K artificial_intelligence chatbots desinformation generative_ai reliability
%T Generative AI and elections: Are chatbots a reliable source of
information for voters?
%U https://algorithmwatch.org/de/schlussbericht-microsoft-bing-chat/
%X Bing Chat, the AI-driven chatbot on Microsoft’s search engine Bing, makes up false scandals about real politicians and invents polling numbers. Microsoft seems unable or unwilling to fix the problem. These findings are based on a joint investigation by AlgorithmWatch and AI Forensics, the final report of which has been published today. We tested if the chatbot would provide factual answers when prompted about the Bavarian, Hessian, and Swiss elections that took place in October 2023.
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abstract = {Bing Chat, the AI-driven chatbot on Microsoft’s search engine Bing, makes up false scandals about real politicians and invents polling numbers. Microsoft seems unable or unwilling to fix the problem. These findings are based on a joint investigation by AlgorithmWatch and AI Forensics, the final report of which has been published today. We tested if the chatbot would provide factual answers when prompted about the Bavarian, Hessian, and Swiss elections that took place in October 2023.},
added-at = {2024-04-15T16:18:34.000+0200},
author = {{AI Forensics} and {AlgorithmWatch}},
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keywords = {artificial_intelligence chatbots desinformation generative_ai reliability},
language = {en},
timestamp = {2024-04-15T16:18:34.000+0200},
title = {Generative AI and elections: Are chatbots a reliable source of
information for voters?},
url = {https://algorithmwatch.org/de/schlussbericht-microsoft-bing-chat/},
year = 2023
}