AI echo chambers: Chatbots feed our own bias back to us, study finds

AI specialists have long warned about the risk of chatbots reflecting our own bias. New research lays bare that so-called large language models, while appearing to give us facts, are often just giving us the answers we want to read. — Photo: Jonas Walzberg/dpa

NEW YORK: Artificial intelligence chatbots are increasingly inclined to echo the views of people who use them, according to US researchers who found that platforms limit what information they share depending on who is asking.

"Because people are reading a summary paragraph generated by AI, they think they’re getting unbiased, fact-based answers," said Ziang Xiao of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.