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Cursed Ping Pong

Here’s a nightmare scenario for our digital futures: the internet becomes so laden with AI-generated misinformation that its nearly unusable, in part because chatbots and other AI systems keep volleying hallucinated, mangled, or otherwise false or misconstrued information back at one another until our entire information landscape is shattered into tiny, blurry pieces and nothing is real anymore.

We’re not there quite yet. But we did just get a glimpse of what that might look like.

Yesterday, The Verge had the unfortunate duty of reporting that, when asking Microsoft’s chatty Bing AI a simple query, it responded by citing misinformation generated by Google’s freshly-released Bard chatbot. And mind you, this all happened just one day after Bard’s release. And away we go!

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