News AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds

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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.

It said the resulting answers contained "significant inaccuracies" and distortions.....

The report said that as well as containing factual inaccuracies, the chatbots "struggled to differentiate between opinion and fact, editorialised, and often failed to include essential context"

"We live in troubled times, and how long will it be before an AI-distorted headline causes significant real world harm?"