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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.

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AI gets 45% of news wrong — but readers still trust it (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 1 month ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

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The BBC and the European Broadcasting Union have produced a large study of how well AI chatbots handle summarising the news. In short: badly.

The researchers asked ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity about current events. 45% of the chatbot answers had at least one major issue. 31% were seriously wrong and 20% had major inaccuracies, from hallucinations or outdated sources. This is across multiple languages and multiple countries.

The AI distortions are “significant and systemic in nature.”

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[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know it's an unfixable problem because the AI boosters are trying so hard to gaslight everyone into thinking that this is a feature, not a bug.

"You don't actually want an AI that doesn't hallucinate — that would take away its cReAtIvItY!"

[–] T156@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It's not wrong to think of it that way, but at the same time, there's a very good question of why you want a model capable of creative writing summarising your news to begin with.

It's basically like an overstuffed kitchen gadget.