Paris, Oct 21, 2025 (AFP) - AI not a reliable source of news, EU media study says

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2025-10-22
Artificial intelligence assistants such as ChatGPT made errors about half the time when asked about news events, according to a vast study by European public broadcasters released Wednesday. The mistakes included confusing news with parody, getting dates wrong or simply inventing events. The report by the European Broadcasting Union looked at four widely used assistants: OpenAI's ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, Google's Gemini, and Perplexity. Ove......
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