Flutterby™! : AI news sucks

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.