AI Misinformation: Google’s Bard and OpenAIs ChatGPT produce misinformation and false news
AI Misinformation: The rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT and Google Bard has catapulted content farms to a new level, allowing them to publish material on an industrial scale. According to a NewsGuard disinformation monitoring report, a growing percentage of content farms are now using generative AI. These websites publish chatbot-generated articles with little or no human editorial supervision.
The figures are staggering. During the week of June 9, one of the websites examined in the study published over 8,600 articles. That works out to an average of 1,200 articles every day. The other two websites examined by NewsGuard published 6,108 and 5,867 posts, respectively, over the same week.
Some of these content farms have even included chatbot error warnings in their headlines, exposing unreviewed AI-generated content. One thing drives content farms: the more they produce, the more traffic they create to their websites, resulting in more ad clicks. According to NewsGuard, over 90% of these advertising are served by Google advertising, which posts adverts on associated pages automatically. NewsGuard discovered 393 adverts from 141 significant brands on 55 AI-powered websites between May and June 2023.
The true issue stems from the intentional generation and propagation of misinformation by generative artificial intelligences. According to David Arroyo, who works for the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) on fake news identification, AI provides the capacity to manufacture more fake news. “The phenomenon of disinformation is poised to escalate due to the availability of these tools,” he said categorically.
Despite their developers’ boasts of being able to replace skilled human journalists, AI chatbots such as Google Bard and Bing Chat have been found to deliver erroneous information and false data. When queried about future PC components and single-board computers from 2024 or 2025, these bots provided full specifications and advise as though the goods were already available, including fictitious model numbers and features.
When queried about non-existent GPUs such as the RTX 5090 Ti and Radeon 9900 XT, for example, both bots offered spec breakdowns, pricing, and availability information as if they were real. Bard even offered contradicting information, such as providing Nvidia-specific CUDA cores to the Radeon RX 9900 XT. In reality, such goods do not exist, and the top-of-the-line GPUs at the moment are the RTX 4090 and Radeon RX 7950 XTX.
When asked about fictional CPUs such as the Core i9-15900K and Ryzen 9 9550X3D, the bots offered spec comparisons based on fictitious data, confusing them with existing CPUs such as the Core i9-13900K and Ryzen 9 7950X3D. The bots also supplied links to buy these non-existent things, but the links took users to irrelevant pages on retailers’ websites.
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