AI chatbots are slowly choking humanity as research shows a 'vicious cycle' could cause global knowledge…
- AI chatbots appear to be providing less diverse responses, research claims
- Displaying the same answers has been likened to globalisation, where the same products and brands are available everywhere
- Such a move may increase convenience, but also reduce diversity
Could we be heading into a real-world Idiocracy? A repeated reliance on AI to provide answers – invariably the same answers, offering the same views – could be shrinking human knowledge, a new study has claimed.
The research, which tested 27 different LLMs, found that even with the best performing LLM, the information presented as answers was almost 19% less diverse than what is available using Google’s standard search engine. Consequently, the information was less varied, providing a narrower selection of answers, views, and restricting interpretation.
Researchers believe that this trend risks pushing certain content to the peripheries of accepted knowledge, while other content is considered dominant or primary...
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