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AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

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421 points sohkamyung | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 13:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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HardCodedBias ◴[22 Oct 25 15:27 UTC] No.45670613[source]▶
I get almost all of my news from LLMs.

I scan the top stories of the day at various news websites. I then go to an LLM (either Gemini or ChatGPT) and ask it to figure out the core issues, the LLM thinks for a while searches a ton of topics and outputs a fantastic analysis of what is happening and what are the base issues. I can follow up and repeat the process.

The analysis is almost entirely fact based and very well reasoned.

It's fantastic and if I was the BBC I would indeed know that the world is changing under their feet and I would strike back in any dishonest way that I could.

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1. latexr ◴[22 Oct 25 17:09 UTC] No.45672129[source]▶
That makes no sense. LLMs have no concept of what is a fact, what is true, all they know is to operate on the text they’re given. And if the BBC and other news orgs went under, LLMs would have no news sources to draw the information from.