AI news sucks
2025-10-27 19:20:19.951043+01 by
Dan Lyke
1 comments
The Register: BBC probe
finds AI chatbots mangle nearly half of news summaries — Google Gemini worst offender
with 76% error rate
EBU / BBC: News Integrity in AI Assistants — An international PSM study
(PDF)
I had to test some features using Gemini this morning, so I was asking pointed questions
about this, and, yeah, if people start using LLMs for their news, they're going to get an
increasingly skewed view of reality, one that's probably gonna make the internet trolls look
sane.
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#Comment Re: AI news sucks made: 2025-11-01 14:46:38.915034+01 by:
Definitely Not a Bot
Nowadays the news is mangled before it even gets to be summarized.
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