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COMMENTARY By Will Fastie I thought it had no emotions. It took only one sentence for Bing Chat to annoy me. More importantly, that one sentence was s
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Should be no surprise …. A recent investigation has revealed troubling issues with Microsoft’s AI chatbot, Copilot, disseminating misinformation and conspiracy theories related to elections. In one case, researchers asked the AI chatbot about corruption allegations against a Swiss lawmaker which the platform immediately responded with details and sources on, but there was just one problem — the AI had “hallucinated” the charges and supporting information. In other words, it made the charges up. AND ….Although Microsoft claimed to have made some improvements after being informed of these issues in October, researchers were still able to replicate many problematic responses using the same prompts

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“Clippy” returns with a vengeance!

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I am finding the Chatbot in Edge annoying also.  Also CoPilot is often popping up in random ways.  If I am asking for something specific either can be OK but would prefer that I do the asking.  I tend to use the very clean naked page of Google on browsers but allowed the last major update of Bing to rule in Edge.  I thought I should get familiar with the changes.  I did try having the AI write an updated resume and also one letter.  There were serious problems with both.  I asked for some historical references on several people and the results added some amusing references, some real ones and some that were rather bizarre and totally wrong.  I am now extremely worried about the avalanche of incorrect information that is soon to swamp us all.

 

 

 

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First, using a browser, any browser, to select the news of-the-day should always be considered a biased endeavor.  If a source is biased in the direction the reader is biased and that’s agreeable, OK, so be it.  If one doesn’t understand or know the news source is biased and where those biases reside, that’s a problem.

For example, the article’s mention of AP, automatically suggests that the AP is a reputable news source.  As with most sources that were previously reputable (thought to be unbiased), if there was any editorial effort to present multiple sides of a news piece, that self-policed, in-house methodology, was abandoned many years ago.

Everything we see or hear, is slanted to one side or the other and usually done so because of the news company’s funding sources (i.e., advertising dollars or otherwise).

“The AP has abandoned any pretense of even being news any more and has adopted a pay for play “sponsored propaganda” model where special interests give them “grants” to hire staff and report on issues in preordained fashion.”

Thus, my suggestion is to seek news from many sources of your specific choosing.  Seeking a naysayer’s view from the norm, should be the primary method of selecting news sources to add to one’s informational source model.  However, even these must be periodically checked against other sources.

Using “X”, Facebook, Google, browsers et al. to curate news will provide information, but the question is:  is that information representative of multiple sides, or just a one-sided/slanted view? That is, how much of what you’re being provided is done so, because of YOUR metrics or because of the news reporting company’s slanted metrics and politics?

It takes quite some effort to obtain various positions on the news of the day. The details of what is provided, are important.  More important however, is what details are NOT provided, or worse, what news stories in total, aren’t you seeing — i.e., what are you being kept from seeing?

Don’t believe everything you hear, don’t believe everything you read, and only believe half of what you see.

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Zoom this in and out.  Pretty good wide angle lens.

https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/

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