Researchers say Bing made up facts about European elections

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 …

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