Why AI Is So Terrible at Handling the News

Why AI Is So Terrible at Handling the News

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News is in my blood. My day job is as the owner of a news photography agency, and my main website is a news site for the Bay Area.

I live and breathe news content. So I’m acutely aware of how bad AI is handling it.

A new study from the Columbia Journalism Review shows that AI search engines like Perplexity and chatbots like Gemini consistently fail to correctly report and cite news stories.

One chatbot that CJR studied —…

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