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no plans to fix it, though

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/05/ai-gets-45-of-news-wrong-but-readers-still-trust-it/ - text

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Sources:

• Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content
• Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory https://www.ebu.ch/news/2025/10/ai-s-systemic-distortion-of-news-is-consistent-across-languages-and-territories-international-study-by-public-service-broadcaste
• News Integrity in AI Assistants: An international PSM study (PDF) https://www.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/ebu/files/Publications/MIS/open/EBU-MIS-BBC_News_Integrity_in_AI_Assistants_Report_2025.pdf
• Audience Use and Perceptions of AI Assistants for News (PDF) https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/audience-use-and-perceptions-of-ai-assistants-for-news.pdf
• Peter Archer: Programme Director, Generative AI https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/whoweare/peter-archer/

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