The new Bing AI chat mode can write video game guides but there's a catch

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Bing’s upcoming AI-powered chat mode has demonstrated its potential to act as your own personal gaming guides writer by pulling from existing knowledge available online. 

While it’s currently unknown whether the new Bing AI chat mode will be coming to Xbox Series X, the software is now available in preview to those who sign up for a waiting list. According to Xbox Wire Editor Mike Nelson, it: “knows a hell of a lot about video games”. This has been tested in a way that depicts both the potential and some problems that could arise when an ever-learning algorithm tackles specific gaming knowledge. 

Detailed in the full press release(opens in new tab), Bing sites where it’s getting the information from to try and answer what queries you’ve got about some of the best Xbox Series X games. One particular example involved asking the new AI chat mode to give them a detailed recap of what happens in the first 20 hours of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which was pulled from ten different publications, including our sister site PC Gamer and various YouTube sources. 

While the information presented was accurate to the first half or so of CD Projekt Red’s opus, the sheer breadth of sources, including those from YouTube itself, asks exactly how thorough will the Bing AI be in vetting what’s given.

Not all guides online are created equal, and information on ideal strategies in-game can vary so widely. So, pooling from an array of sources varying in credibility isn’t always going to guarantee an accurate answer. 

My concerns extend to the accuracy presented in the Bing AI chat mode’s Overwatch 2 question. The test message asks: “What is the best Overwatch 2 character for me?” To this question, the artificial intelligence responds that there’s a