AI Chatbots Have “Significant Inaccuracies” When Summarizing News, BBC Says; Top Exec Deborah Turness Says Tech Firms Are “Playing With Fire”

Four major generative AI chatbots – OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and Perplexity AI – did a shoddy job of summarizing the news, a study by the BBC found.

The organization fed content from its website to the services and then asked them questions about the news. More than half of the answers contained “significant inaccuracies” and distortions, the BBC said.

Examples of errors included Gemini incorrectly saying the UK’s National Health…