Experts asked GPT-4 100 leading prompts about conspiracy theories — and, shockingly, the chatbot didn’t push back against any of them.
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You know that pesky misinformation problem that keeps plaguing AIs like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard?
As it turns out, OpenAI’s latest version of its GPT large language model (LLM) is, per expert analysis from watchdog NewsGuard, even worse than its predecessor when it comes to spewing outright lies with confidence.
In its latest report, the misinformation research org pointed out that not only did GPT-4 echo false news narratives 100 percent of the time when prompted by NewsGuard’s researchers. Not only is that not great, but it’s also a step in the wrong direction from its supposedly less sophisticated predecessor, GPT-3.5, which only echoed 80 of the 100 conspiratorial news items when put to the same test.
Put another way, while GPT-3.
