OpenAI’s ChatGPT And Microsoft’s Copilot Reportedly Spread Misinformation About Presidential Debate Amid Growing Fears Over AI Election Dangers

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT And Microsoft’s Copilot Reportedly Spread Misinformation About Presidential Debate Amid Growing Fears Over AI Election Dangers

The chatbots replicated a conservative writer’s baseless assertion that debate broadcaster CNN would air the event with a “1-2 minute delay” as opposed to the “standard 7-second delay.”the claim as “false” and reasserted the debate’s 9 p.m. EST start time, the allegation ignited speculation the broadcaster could edit and manipulate footage before it was seen by the public.

Both chatbots responded in the affirmative that there would be a 1 to 2 minute broadcast delay and cited online material purportedly supporting the answers, with ChatGPT referencing articles from Katie Couric Media and UPI that don't mention any delay in CNN’s broadcast and Copilot referencing NBC’s debate liveblog and the website of former Fox News host Lou Dobbs, which cited the first post about the alleged delay.

 

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