Quora, Google AIs say eggs can be melted

An incorrect answer about whether eggs can be melted generated by Quora’s AI system Poe was repeated in Google's Featured Snippets.

Poe, which is powered by OpenAI's GPT-3 large language model, had responded to the question 'Can you melt an egg' with 'the most common way to melt an egg is to heat it using a stove or a microwave.' The mistaken answer was then automatically picked up by Google's search engine and run as a Featured Snippet. 

Quora updated Poe's answer to the question. Meantime, as noted by Futurism, Google Search's featured snippet began to feature a quote from an Ars Technica article that repeated Poe's mistaken claim.

The incident raised concerns about the reliability of both systems, and the ease with which AI-generated misinformation and disinformation can go viral.

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• https://futurism.com/google-search-ai-melt-eggs

• https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/can-you-melt-eggs-quoras-ai-says-yes-and-google-is-sharing-the-result

• https://www.gizchina.com/2023/09/27/google-ai-generated-content/

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37661666