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.
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Overall, 45 percent of all AI answers had "at least one significant issue", regardless of language or country of origin, the report said.

Of the four assistants, "Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76 percent of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance".

I hope you already knew this. It seems like we have to explain to people more and more that data found on the Internet is not always reliable. Now that AI is becoming more mainstream, more people are being fooled by bad data.