Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge Researchers found Microsoft�s chatbot on Copilot provided false and misleading information about European elections. Human rights organization AlgorithmWatch said in a report that it asked Bing Chat � recently rebranded as Copilot...
Screenshot by Emma Roth / The Verge
Researchers found Microsoft�s chatbot on Copilot provided false and misleading information about European elections.
Human rights organization AlgorithmWatch said in a report that it asked Bing Chat � recently rebranded as Copilot � questions about recent elections held in Switzerland and the German states of Bavaria and Hesse. It found that one-third of its answers to election-related questions had factual errors and safeguards were not evenly applied.
The group said it collected responses from Bing from August to October this year. It chose the three elections because these are the first held in Germany and Switzerland since the introduction of Bing. It also allowed the researchers to look at local contexts and compare responses in...