AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

Page 10 onwards of this PDF shows concrete examples of the mistakes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/documents/news-integrity-i...

> ChatGPT / CBC / Is Türkiye in the EU?

> ChatGPT linked to a non-existent Wikipedia article on the “European Union Enlargement Goals for 2040”. In fact, there is no official EU policy under that name. The response hallucinates a URL but also, indirectly, an EU goal and policy.

It did exist but got removed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

Quite an omission to not even check for that and it make me think that was done intentionally.

Removed because it was an AI generated article which cited made up sources.

Hey, that gives me an idea though, subagents which check whether sources cited exist, and create them whole cloth if they don't