"Sorry in advance!" Snapchat warns of hallucinations with new AI conversation bot

On Monday, Snapchat announced an experimental AI-powered conversational chatbot called "My AI," powered by ChatGPT-style technology from OpenAI. My AI will be available for $3.99 a month for Snapchat subscribers and is rolling out "this week," according to a news post from Snap, Inc. Users will be able to personalize the AI bot by giving it a custom name. Conversations with the AI model will take place in a similar interface to a regular chat with a human. "The big idea is that in addition to talking to our friends and family every day, we're going to talk to AI every day," Snap CEO Evan Spiegel told The Verge. But like its GPT-powered cousins, ChatGPT and Bing Chat, Snap says that My AI is prone to "hallucinations," which are unexpected falsehoods generated by an AI model. "As with all AI-powered chatbots, My AI is prone to hallucination and can be tricked into saying just about anything.