Anti-free speech Microsoft is looking to discredit supposed “disinformation” online, even as the artificial intelligence it supports generates biased and false information.
Microsoft is expanding its anti-free speech partnerships again. The company’s latest project is “a new media program to combat the problem by attaching a credibility check page to online news via ads,” Fortune reported on June 13. The partnership between the “nonprofit” Trust Project and Microsoft aims to discredit some online content with ads placed on some articles redirecting to criteria for identifying supposed “disinformation.” According to Fortune, this comes as AI supported by Microsoft has notoriously generated fake information or “hallucinations.” The Big Tech giant even had to shut down its chatbot Tay after the AI started spewing inappropriate and racist comments, like a “Nazi,” per CBS News.
Microsoft invested $10 billion in ChatGPT’s parent company and creator, OpenAI. Additionally, the company planted AI features in its Bing search engine and partners with biased leftist ratings firm NewsGuard. This new media program — with ads that will redirect to Trust Project’s “8 Trust Indicators,” per Fortune — is just another anti-free speech effort. Unfortunately, leftist companies like Microsoft also have a history of suppressing facts that don’t fit their narrative as “disinformation.”
Fortune tried to scare-monger that “disinformation” has “inflamed national crises” like COVID-19. It did not mention the issue of censorship, including the fact that censorship of alleged COVID-19 “disinformation” actually targeted assertions that turned out to be accurate.
The European Union (EU) is pushing for regulation of AI content from tech companies like Microsoft, Fortune noted, citing EU Commission Vice President, Vera Jourova. Jourova has made pro-censorship comments at a January 2023 Davos conference.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has demonstrated a leftist, anti-Christian bias. For instance, just before Holy Week, the AI chatbot cracked a joke about Jesus but refused to do the same for Islamic prophet Muhammad. In January, the New York Post reported that ChatGPT seems to have a “built-in ideological bias.” Yet Microsoft has even brought ChatGPT to the medical field.
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