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ChatGPT-Powered Bing Reportedly Had Problems with Factual Accuracy on Some Controversial Topics

February 7, 2023

Microsoft's ChatGPT-powered Bing search engine reportedly ran into factual accuracy problems when prompted about controversial matters, such as inventing plot of a non-existent movie or creating conspiracy theories.
Alleged deployer
microsoft
Alleged developer
openai, microsoft
Alleged harmed parties
bing-users

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/468

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