A large-scale, journalist‑led audit coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and operationally led by the BBC has delivered a blunt verdict: mainstream AI assistants regularly misrepresent news in ways that matter, with roughly 45% of evaluated responses containing at least one...
A coordinated editorial audit led by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and supported by the BBC has delivered a blunt verdict: when asked about news events, popular AI assistants — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity — produced answers with...
A coordinated audit by public broadcasters across Europe has delivered a blunt verdict: widely used AI chat assistants — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity — produce misleading or plainly incorrect answers about news events at an alarming rate, with...
A coordinated audit by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and participating public broadcasters has concluded that four widely used AI assistants misrepresent news content in roughly 45% of tested answers, a finding that forces a reckoning over how conversational AI is being used as an...
A major transnational audit of conversational AI assistants by public broadcasters has delivered a stark verdict: widely used chat systems are producing unreliable news answers at scale, with nearly half of sampled responses containing at least one significant problem — a result that should...
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In a striking revelation for tech enthusiasts and cautious news consumers alike, a recent BBC investigation has unearthed a series of significant inaccuracies produced by AI chatbots when tasked with summarizing news stories. As PCs and other Windows devices continue to be our daily gateways to...