AI is terrible with news, and there’s data to back that up, researchers say. That’s according to new research by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which found that AI assistants “routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested.” The EBU brought together 22 public service media organizations across 18 countries and 14 languages to …
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Leading AI assistants misrepresented or mishandled news content in nearly half of evaluated answers, according to a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and BBC study. The research assessed free/consumer versions of ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity, answering news questions in 14 languages across 22 public-service media organizations in 18 countries. The EBU said in announcing the findings: “AI’s systemic distortion of …
Read More »AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time Hacker News AI chatbots fail at accurate news, major study reveals DW Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory BBC AI models misrepresent news events nearly half the time, study says Al Jazeera News Integrity in AI Assistants Toolkit EBU Source link
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By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Leading AI assistants misrepresent news content in nearly half their responses, according to new research published on Wednesday by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC. The international research studied 3,000 responses to questions about the news from leading artificial intelligence assistants – software applications that use AI to understand natural language commands …
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Large language models are currently everyone’s solution to everything. The technology’s versatility is part of its appeal: the use cases for generative AI seem both huge and endless. But then you use the stuff, and not enough of it works very well. And you wonder what we’re really accomplishing here. On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay rejoins the show …
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While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for three decades claims they are wasting their money. Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the future Elon Musk envisions, is “pure fantasy thinking,” in part because robots are coordination-challenged. …
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Google is making it possible to now share your Gemini Gems — custom AI assistants and experts designed for specific tasks — the company announced on Thursday. The feature launched last year, initially as part of the Gemini Advanced paid subscription, allowing users to write instructions to create an AI chatbot for different scenarios. For instance, Google launched with premade …
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Hollywood is contracting. Studios are ordering fewer shows, laying off huge swaths of their workforce, and shipping production overseas. It started a few years ago, as, in The Hollywood Reporter‘s words, “a marathon to compete with Netflix’s firehose of content suddenly became a sprint to trim costs” and strive toward profitability. The resonance of this shift has been felt at …
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