A new report released by the BBC has found major issues when it comes to AI agents answering questions about news and current events. Article content

The study, “News Integrity in AI Assistants,” found that when AI chatbots such as ChatGPT were given questions about the news, 81 per cent of responses contained some issue with their answers, and 45 per cent were deemed to have a significant issue. Article content

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Questions were given to four widely used AI assistants – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity. Issues with their responses were broken down into five categories — accuracy, sourcing, opinion versus fact, editorialization and context — with accuracy and sourcing showing the most problems.

The report include

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