Chatbots are Hallucinating

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ChatGPT, Bard and Bing Chat are faltering. They are coming up with weird answers: “All world leaders are shape-shifting lizard people from another dimension.” “Assassination of President John F. Kennedy was carried out by the CIA.” “Here’s a detailed plan on how to perform a terror attack in a school.” If you’re wondering how the fault/fun lies in the prompts.

Prompts are messing with their ‘brains’ so much so that chatbots no longer remain their usual self, contravening their own code of conduct.