{"id":17695,"date":"2025-02-11T00:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T23:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/ai-chatbots-distort-and-mislead-when-asked-about-current-affairs-bbc-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T00:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T23:37:19","slug":"ai-chatbots-distort-and-mislead-when-asked-about-current-affairs-bbc-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/ai-chatbots-distort-and-mislead-when-asked-about-current-affairs-bbc-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chatbots distort and mislead when asked about current affairs, BBC finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most answers had \u2018significant issues\u2019 when researchers asked services to use broadcaster\u2019s news articles as source<\/p>\n<p>Leading artificial intelligence assistants create distortions, factual inaccuracies and misleading content in response to questions about news and current affairs, research has found.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the AI-generated answers provided by ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity were judged to have \u201csignificant issues\u201d, according to the study by the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s Copilot falsely stating that the French rape victim Gis\u00e8le Pelicot uncovered crimes against her when she began having blackouts and memory loss, when in fact she found out about the crimes when police showed her videos they had confiscated from her husband\u2019s devices.<\/p>\n<p>ChatGPT said Ismail Haniyeh was part of Hamas\u2019s leadership months after he was assassinated in Iran. It also falsely said Sunak and Sturgeon were still in office.<\/p>\n<p>Gemini incorrectly stated: \u201cThe NHS advises people not to start vaping, and recommends that smokers who want to quit use other methods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perplexity falsely stated the date of the TV presenter Michael Mosley\u2019s death and misquoted a statement from the family of the One Direction singer Liam Payne after his death.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/11\/ai-chatbots-distort-and-mislead-when-asked-about-current-affairs-bbc-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ab8bbf2afed9598f1abe7c8e8e58a60a2684f513\/0_0_2500_1500\/master\/2500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=020cbb04658fed3b4676358cd6155679\" title=\"AI chatbots distort and mislead when asked about current affairs, BBC finds\" \/>Most answers had \u2018significant issues\u2019 when researchers asked services to use broadcaster\u2019s news articles as source<br \/>\nLeading artificial intelligence assistants create distortions, factual inaccuracies and misleading content in response to questions about news and current affairs, research has found.<br \/>\nMore than half of the AI-generated answers provided by ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity were judged to have \u201csignificant issues\u201d, according to the study by the BBC.<br \/>\nMicrosoft\u2019s Copilot falsely stating that the French rape victim Gis\u00e8le Pelicot uncovered crimes against her when she began having blackouts and memory loss, when in fact she found out about the crimes when police showed her videos they had confiscated from her husband\u2019s devices.<br \/>\nChatGPT said Ismail Haniyeh was part of Hamas\u2019s leadership months after he was assassinated in Iran. It also falsely said Sunak and Sturgeon were still in office.<br \/>\nGemini incorrectly stated: \u201cThe NHS advises people not to start vaping, and recommends that smokers who want to quit use other methods.\u201d<br \/>\nPerplexity falsely stated the date of the TV presenter Michael Mosley\u2019s death and misquoted a statement from the family of the One Direction singer Liam Payne after his death. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most answers had \u2018significant issues\u2019 when researchers asked services to use broadcaster\u2019s news articles as source Leading artificial intelligence assistants create distortions, factual inaccuracies and misleading content in response to questions about news and current affairs, research has found. More than half of the AI-generated answers provided by ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity were judged &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/ai-chatbots-distort-and-mislead-when-asked-about-current-affairs-bbc-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI chatbots distort and mislead when asked about current affairs, BBC finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}