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The rhetorical blast from a recent opinion headline — that using AI chatbots to follow the news is like “injecting severe poison directly into your brain” — captures a real anxiety, but it also obscures what’s provably wrong, what’s still speculative, and what we must fix now if conversational...

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...

A sweeping international study coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by public broadcasters has found that four leading AI chatbots — ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Perplexity — misrepresent news content in roughly 45 percent of tested responses, with...

A sweeping, journalist‑led international audit has concluded that mainstream AI chatbots routinely misrepresent the news: roughly 45% of sampled assistant replies contained at least one significant problem, sourcing failures afflicted about one‑third of outputs, and one in five answers contained...

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...