We don’t know what Microsoft’s Bing or OpenAI’s ChatGPT are trained on. But if we did know, we could very well be put off from using the chatbots at all. A new report from The Washington Post examining the training data powering competing large language models (LLMs) from Google and Facebook reveals chatbots could very easily pull from copyrighted material and discredited news sources to create their responses. And that’s before you consider their tendency to “hallucinate” wrong answers without you even knowing.
