Mark Cuban: Internet misinformation will only ‘get worse’ as ChatGPT and its competitors grow

Mark Cuban whitethorn beryllium entertained by chatbots similar Microsoft-backed ChatGPT and Google's upcoming Bard — but helium isn't acceptable to spot them.

Online misinformation "is lone going to get worse" arsenic artificial quality platforms germinate and spread, the billionaire tech entrepreneur and capitalist said connected a caller episode of comedian Jon Stewart's podcast, "The Problem with Jon Stewart."

Right now, misinformation tends to dispersed done societal media platforms like Facebook oregon Twitter — and that's with immoderate semblance of quality guardrails successful place, Cuban said. But with ChatGPT and different akin platforms, the machines are successful control.

"Once these things commencement taking connected a beingness of their ain ... it volition beryllium hard for america to specify wherefore and however the instrumentality makes the decisions it makes, and who controls the machine," Cuban said.

Hundreds of millions of users person tried ChatGPT to constitute poems, connection proposal and recite recipes since the level launched successful November. But truthful far, the exertion isn't showing itself to beryllium smarter than the mean human.

Posting the chatbot's simplistic errors is simply a fashionable societal media trend. At times, ChatGPT incorrectly answers mathematics problems, refuses to reply basal riddles and adjacent "hallucinates"— oregon wholly makes up humanities figures, events and different details that look similar facts.

ChatGPT tin besides contradict itself, sometimes providing antithetic answers erstwhile repeatedly asked the aforesaid question.

Similarly, shares of Google's genitor institution Alphabet dropped much than 9% this week aft Bard incorrectly answered a question astir NASA's James Webb Space Telescope successful 1 of Google's archetypal ads for the AI platform.

A raft of Google employees person blamed CEO Sundar Pichai for Bard's "rushed, botched" release, with the institution feeling pressured to vie with ChatGPT, CNBC reported connected Friday.

"Rushing Bard to marketplace successful a panic validated the market's fearfulness astir us," work 1 station connected an interior Google forum reviewed by CNBC, alongside a photograph of a face-palming bird.

The errors amusement that the exertion is inactive successful infantile stages. That's a problem, particularly for ample swaths of radical who don't ever information cheque claims they spot connected the internet, Cuban said.

"Our generation, Gen X and older, doesn't get it," Cuban said. "Gen Z and younger, they're not lone autochthonal to it, they cognize however to artifact things retired ... They're much successful tune to each these issues."  

Microsoft, for its part, acknowledges that the exertion down ChatGPT isn't cleanable — adjacent arsenic it plans to incorporated it into an upcoming mentation of its hunt engine, Bing.

"Bing volition sometimes misrepresent the accusation it finds, and you whitethorn spot responses that dependable convincing but are incomplete, inaccurate, oregon inappropriate," the company's precocious updated FAQ page says.

In the abbreviated term, that could beryllium a occupation — a interest Cuban shares with chap tech billionaire Steve Wozniak. But different manufacture luminaries person expressed excitement astir the technology's longer-term possibilities.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, for example, thinks platforms similar ChatGPT correspond a burgeoning technological gyration that'll marque a "huge impact" connected wellness attraction and education, helium told German-language concern paper Handelsblatt's "Disrupt" podcast on Thursday.

"Today, they necessitate excessively overmuch computation, they're not ever close ... But adjacent this week, you'll person announcements from Microsoft and Google, wherever they're competing to pb successful this space," Gates said. "The advancement implicit the adjacent mates of years to marque these things adjacent amended volition beryllium profound."

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