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 chatbots are distorting news stories, BBC finds
News summaries from ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Perplexity contained ‘significant issues,’ a BBC study found.
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.'
Report says companies ‘playing with fire’ as AI chatbots fail when trying to summarize news
In this new test, staff at the BBC fed 100 news articles from the company website to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and Perplexity. The bots were asked questions about the articles, which led to what the BBC reported as “significant inaccuracies” and distortions.
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.
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;
Leading AI chatbots struggle to generate accurate news summaries
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