AI will pollute the Internet

Recently, Google invited the world to marvel at how clever its latest artificial intelligence (AI) software is, but it all went horribly wrong. Overnight, more than $100bn was wiped from the share price of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, as a result.

Interestingly the software actually did OK. The haphazard answers spewed out by Google’s AI chatbot, Bard, were just as poor as those generated by the software it sought to eclipse: ChatGPT.

In just a few weeks, OpenAI’s chatbot has captured the imagination of the media, and created a minor speculative bubble in the tech world. Microsoft began to introduce this automatic text generator into its search engine and its Office products such as Word.