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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answers had at least one major issue. 31% were seriously wrong and 20% had major inaccuracies, from hallucinations or outdated sources.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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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Well no shit. The whole point of most news is that it is already a summary. That's why it's not a livestream or novel, typically.

Summarizing a summary accurately is hard if the author was a halfway skilled writer. You have to omit facts, and then you fuck it all up.