A sweeping, journalist‑led audit coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led operationally by the BBC has found that leading AI chatbots routinely misrepresent news: in the study’s sample, 45% of AI-generated answers contained at least one significant issue, with pervasive...
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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A major new study by public-service broadcasters has concluded that popular AI assistants regularly misrepresent news — with nearly half of sampled answers containing significant problems — a finding that should reframe how Windows users, enterprises and everyday news consumers treat chat-driven...
AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle.
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Artificial intelligence has rapidly woven itself into our daily online activities—from organizing our calendars to answering our questions in seconds. But when it comes to summarizing the news, can we really trust these digital assistants? A recent article on MUO, titled "Here's Why You...