Margaret Atwood says the problem with AI is ‘garbage in, garbage out’

Author Margaret Atwood criticized AI chatbots after using Claude (an AI assistant made by Anthropic) to search for information about a TV show, only to receive incorrect information. She highlighted a fundamental problem with large language models (AI systems trained on vast amounts of text data that generate responses word-by-word), arguing that when they're trained on poor quality or inaccurate data, they produce unreliable outputs, a principle she described as 'garbage in, garbage out.'