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Bing, the default search engine for the default operating system (Windows) for laptops and desktops, is planning to show made-up text and images (which are plausible looking) as search results.
"Microsoft last year unveiled plans to integrate image-generation software from OpenAI into its search engine Bing. A recent report from the Information said similar plans were underway for ChatGPT as Microsoft looks to take on market leader Google Search."
https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-talks-invest-10-bln-chatgpt-owner-semafor-2023-01-10/
news: Microsoft & AI 😱
About images they will make clear when they are generated, they are not stupid.
About text, it is more worrying since many people are already using #ChatGPT as it could be reasonable and factually accurate, while it is just meant to produce text that sounds plausible and is syntactically and grammatically correct.
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@post Sure, but some people will look at the images & not understand that they're made up by a computer. How can you message that to someone who doesn't know what "AI" actually means? And if you hide the meaning behind a (?) icon that has a tooltip, will they actually find and read it?
I agree the text regeneration is more problematic for sure. There's a GPT3 search engine integration demo @ https://www.perplexity.ai/ — it has notes, but that makes it even more problematic.
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I'm generally opposed to the term "AI", they could be labeled as "artificially generated" or something like that, shown in their own category or even being generated after the user specifically ask for it.
Sadly it's not like there isn't already the risk to retrieve an artificial image from a website when using a search engine and take it for real.
