Incident #470·Misinformation

Bing Chat Response Cited ChatGPT Disinformation Example

February 8, 20232 reportsView on AIID

Description

Reporters from TechCrunch issued a query to Microsoft Bing's ChatGPT feature, which cited an earlier example of ChatGPT disinformation discussed in a news article to substantiate the disinformation.

Actors

Alleged Deployers

microsoft

Alleged Developers

openai
microsoft

Harmed Parties

openai
microsoft

Classification

Risk Domain

Misinformation

Risk Subdomain

3.1. False or misleading information

MIT Risk Profile

AIUnintentionalPost-deployment

Source

Databaseaiid

LicenseCC BY-SA 4.0

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Source Reports(2 total)

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

theverge.com· Mar 2023

AI is eating itself: Bing's AI quotes COVID disinfo sourced from ChatGPT

techcrunch.com· Feb 2023