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AI chatbots are distorting news stories, BBC finds
News summaries from ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity contained ‘significant issues,’ a BBC study found.
This BBC Study Shows How Inaccurate AI News Summaries Actually Are
A BBC study of AI news summaries found issues with more than half of AI news summaries, with none of the tested companies performing exceptionally well.
‘Significant inaccuracies’ found in AI-generated news summaries: BBC
The BBC issued a February report that found “significant inaccuracies” with news summaries generated from artificial intelligence (AI) engines including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s
AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds
Four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories, according to research carried out by the BBC. The BBC gave OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini and Perplexity AI content from the BBC website then asked them questions about the news.
BBC conducts AI study, suggests chatbots are inaccurately summarizing news
A new AI study carried out by the BBC suggests 'four major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are inaccurately summarising news stories.'
How Reliable Are AI News Summaries? BBC Study Raises Concerns
A BBC study revealed that four popularly used AI chatbots were found wanting in terms of accurately summarising news articles.
AI chatbots distort the news, BBC finds - see what they get wrong
Four major AI chatbots are churning out "significant inaccuracies" and "distortions" when asked to summarize news stories, according to a BBC investigation. OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini, and Perplexity AI were each presented with news content from BBC's website and then asked questions about the news.
AI summaries turn real news into nonsense, BBC finds
In January, Apple's on-device AI service generated a headline of a BBC news story that appeared on iPhones claiming that Luigi Mangione, a man arrested over the murder of healthcare insurance CEO Brian Thomson, had shot himself. This was not true and the public broadcaster complained to the tech giant.
AI chatbots distort and mislead when asked about the news, BBC study finds
More than half of the AI-generated answers provided by ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity were judged to have ‘significant issues,’ according to the study by the BBC. The errors included stating that Rishi Sunak was still the prime minister and that Nicola Sturgeon was still Scotland’s first minister;
Microsoft Copilot struggles to discern facts from opinions — posting distorted AI news summaries riddled with inaccuracies: "How long before an AI-distorted headli…
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Most generative AI responses based on news content contain inaccuracies
Nine out of ten AI chatbot responses about news queries contained at least "some issues", BBC research has claimed.