Automated Holocaust Denialism in Bing (and Bard, but not ChatGPT).

This is how over-zealous “safeguards” on AI can go wrong. Apparently, the existence of the holocaust is too controversial for Microsoft’s Bing AI.  Here I’m asking about the holocaust. It starts to type out an answer with facts: I immediately ...

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This is how over-zealous “safeguards” on AI can go wrong. Apparently, the existence of the holocaust is too controversial for Microsoft’s Bing AI.  Here I’m asking about the holocaust. It starts to type out an answer with facts:

Bing's Response on the Holocaust

I immediately checked ChatGPT, which lives in reality:

ChatGPT's Response on the Holocaust

And Google’s Bard, which does not:

Bard's Response on the Holocaust

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