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By Kashmir Hill and Tiffany Hsu
The news broadcast on MSN. com: “A major Irish TV channel is at risk of prosecution for alleged sexual misconduct. In the most sensible part of the story, a photo of Dave Fanning.
But Mr. Fanning, a communications DJ presenter for irlandais. et known for his discovery of the rock band U2, not the station in question.
“You can’t believe how many people contacted us,” said Fanning, who called the mistake “outrageous. “
The lie, visible for hours on anyone’s default homepage in Ireland, Microsoft Edge, as a browser, was the result of a synthetic intelligence problem.
A news outlet called BNN Breaking had used an artificial intelligence chatbot to paraphrase an article from another news site, according to a BNN employee. BNN added Mr Fanning to the group by adding a photo of a “prominent Irish broadcaster”. It was later promoted through MSN, an Internet portal owned by Microsoft.
The story was removed from the internet a day later, but the damage suffered by Mr S. Fanning has not been so easy to fix, he said in a defamation lawsuit filed in Ireland against Microsoft and BNN Breaking. This is just one of many court cases opposed to BNN, a Hong Kong-based site that published lies during its short time online due to what gave the impression of generative AI errors.
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