Meta’s AI assistant and Google’s search autocomplete feature have come under scrutiny for providing inaccurate information related to the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. While Google claims it is trying to improve its feature, Meta has a different excuse for covering up the assassination attempt — its AI was “hallucinating.”
The Verge reports that Meta’s AI assistant has been caught covering up the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The incident has raised concerns about the reliability of AI-generated responses to real-time events and the potential implications for public information dissemination.
Joel Kaplan, Meta’s global head of policy, addressed the issue in a company blog post published on Tuesday. Kaplan described the AI’s responses as “unfortunate” and explained that Meta had initially programmed its AI to avoid responding to questions about the assassination attempt. However, this restriction was later removed after users began noticing the AI’s silence on the matter.
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