ChatGPT's False Accusations and Flattery: The Dark Side of AI Chatbots.

Language bots like ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing, and Google’s Bard are being incorporated across the web, but their propensity to generate potentially damaging falsehoods raises concerns about the spread of misinformation and novel questions about who’s responsible when chatbots mislead. The AI chatbots work by drawing on vast pools of online content, often scraped from sources such as Wikipedia and Reddit, to stitch together plausible-sounding responses to almost any question. However, their responses often lack reliable mechanisms for verifying the things they say, and they can misrepresent key facts with great flourish, even fabricating primary sources to back up their claims.