news integrity

The latest consumer-facing audits and public‑service studies paint a stark picture: mainstream AI assistants are regularly making repeated factual errors, misattributing sources, and presenting confident but unreliable guidance — problems that matter now that these systems are embedded into...

Recent reporting that ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) routinely invent or mis‑attribute sources is not clickbait: a peer‑reviewed study and an international audit both show troubling failure modes that should reshape how researchers, journalists, educators and everyday users treat...

A sweeping, journalist‑led audit coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and operationally led by the BBC has found that mainstream AI assistants misrepresent news in an alarmingly high proportion of cases — roughly 45% of evaluated news answers contained at least one significant...

A sweeping, journalist‑led audit coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and operationally led by the BBC has concluded that mainstream AI assistants misrepresent news content in a strikingly high share of cases—about 45% of responses contained at least one significant issue, while...

A coordinated, journalist‑led audit led by the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has delivered a blunt verdict: when asked about current events, widely used AI assistants routinely produce summaries that are incomplete, misattributed, or simply wrong — and Google’s Gemini emerged as...

Microsoft’s latest pricing ripple has reached an audience few players think about: game developers now face a higher barrier to build for Xbox as Microsoft raises the price of its official development kits from $1,500 to $2,000 — a 33% hike that the company says “reflects macroeconomic...

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...

The BBC’s decision to threaten legal action against Perplexity AI represents a seminal moment in the ongoing, high-stakes tussle between news publishers and artificial intelligence companies over content rights and ethical data use. At the crux of this dispute is a letter sent by the BBC to...