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I tried Bing’s ChatGPT. Its Aussie results are a bin fire

Ask the new Bing chatbot about John Howard and it confidently tells you the former PM apologised to the stolen generations. It’s just one of a catalogue of bizarre errors.

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If some guy told you that one of John Howard’s lasting legacies as prime minister was his apology to the stolen generations, would you trust him?

No, you wouldn’t. Because not only would they be wrong, but so wrong that you would doubt everything else they claimed to know.

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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com
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