The rise of generative AI could create abundant new opportunities for the spread of misinformation and lies online.
that have stoked a tech-industry frenzy are also capable of releasing a vast flood of online misinformation.: Regulators and technologists were slow to address the dangers of misinformation spread on social media and are still playing catch-up with imperfect and incomplete policy and product solutions.
Now, experts are sounding the alarm faster as real-life examples of inaccurate or erratic responses from generative AI bots“It’s getting worse and getting worse fast,” Gary Marcus, a professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at New York University andGenerative AI programs like ChatGPT don't have a clear sense of the boundary between fact and fiction. They're also prone to making things up as they try to satisfy human users' inquiries.
"I think the urgent issue is the very large number of malign actors, whether it's Russian disinformation agents or Chinese disinformation agents," Gordon Crovitz, co-founder of NewsGuard, a service that uses journalists to rate news and information sites, told Axios.Misinformation can flow into AI models as well as from them.
"The technology is impressive, but not perfect… whatever comes out of the chatbot should be approached with the same kind of scrutiny you might have approaching a random news article," said Jared Holt, a senior research manager at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. "Chatbots are designed to please the end consumer — so what happens when people with bad intentions decide to apply it to their own efforts?" Holt adds.: Tech firms are trying to get ahead of the possible regulatory and industry concerns around AI-generated misinformation by developing their own tools to detect falsehoods and using feedback to train the algorithms in real time.
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