But a stunningnew studyhas found ChatGPT answers computer programming questions incorrectly 52% of the time.

Disturbingly, programmers in the study didnt always catch the mistakes being produced by the AI chatbot.

But there are a number of hurdles standing in the way.

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Googles new AI-powered Search is constantlyspouting garbagethats often scraped from unreliable sources.

For its part, Google defends itself by insisting wrong answers are anomalies.

The vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information, with links to dig deeper on the web.

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But that defense, that uncommon queries are showing wrong answers, is frankly laughable.

Are users only supposed to ask these chatbots the most mundane questions?

How is that acceptable, when the promise is that these tools are supposed to be revolutionary?

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OpenAI didnt immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday about the new study on ChatGPT answers.

Gizmodo will update this post if we hear back.

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