> 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions.
> 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information.
I'm generally against whataboutism, but here I think we absolutely have to compare it to human-written news reports. Famously, Michael Crichton introduced the "Gell-Mann amnesia effect" [0], saying:
> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
This has absolutely been my experience. I couldn't find proper figures, but I would put good money on significantly over 45% of articles written in human-written news articles having "at least one significant issue".