Incident 750: AI Chatbots Reportedly Inaccurately Conveyed Real-Time Political News

Description: Over a week of back-to-back, significant breaking political news stories, including the Trump rally shooting and Biden’s campaign withdrawal, AI chatbots reportedly failed to provide accurate real-time updates. Most chatbots gave incorrect or outdated information, demonstrating their current limitations in handling fast-paced news. These incidents suggest the continuing need for improved AI capabilities and caution in their deployment for real-time news dissemination.

Editor Notes: Incident 750 is closely related to Incident 742. Incident 742 focuses on Grok AI's performance in the wake of the Trump assassination attempt. Incident 750 discusses a variety of different chatbots' performances, but does not mention Grok AI, in the wake of both the Trump assassination attempt and Biden dropping out of the presidential election.

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Alleged: Perplexity , OpenAI , Meta and Google developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Journalism , General public and Chatbot users.

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750

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Incident Date

2024-07-22

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Daniel Atherton

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A week of nonstop breaking political news stumps AI chatbots

washingtonpost.com

washingtonpost.com · 2024

In the hour after President Biden announced Sunday that he would withdraw from the 2024 campaign, most popular AI chatbots seemed oblivious to the news. Asked directly whether he had dropped out, almost all said no or declined to give an an…

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