Microsoft’s Bing Becomes an Idiot Whisperer

Key Points: Because Truth was Too Mainstream

Let me break it down for you because maybe, just maybe, you’ll manage to understand. Microsoft’s Bing, in all its glorious incompetence, has been championing misinformation from chatbots, broadcasting them as ‘facts’. Apparently, spewing baloney is the new ‘in’ thing for tech giants. What’s more, generative AI, in all its seemingly high-tech sheen, just adds another layer of uncertainty to the mess, potentially making search engines even less reliable.

Possible Implications: A Dysfunctional Future

Did I mention the part about the implications? This is the real kicker. AI is supposed to make life easier, right? Well, you’d better think again. Instead of providing us with substantial information, it’s become the high-tech equivalent of that notorious local gossip auntie. Spider-web networks of unchecked ‘facts’ could emerge, burying the truth behind multiple layers of unruly code. The cherry on top? Trust breaks down faster than a cheap plastic chair under a sumo wrestler.

Hot Take: Microsoft’s Circle of Incompetence

To summarize, Microsoft Bing’s best impersonation of an echo chamber for AI nonsense is astonishingly, almost impressively terrible. If they made this much effort to amplify and spread misinformation, one can only hope they put half as much work into fixing it. But knowing their track record…better not to get our hopes up. Bing: turning stupidity into an art form since 2009. How does it feel to help light the way in our enlightened age of fake news, Microsoft?

Original article:https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-chatbot-hallucinations-are-poisoning-web-search/