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AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

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423 points sohkamyung | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 13:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.534s | source
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giantg2 ◴[22 Oct 25 16:06 UTC] No.45671249[source]▶
"AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time"

How does that compare to the number for reporters? I feel like half the time I read or hear a report on a subject I know the reporter misrepresented something.

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latexr ◴[22 Oct 25 16:50 UTC] No.45671864[source]▶
That’s whataboutism and doesn’t address the criticism or the problem. If a reporter misrepresents a subject, intentionally or accidentally, it doesn’t make it OK for a tool to then misrepresent it further, mangling both was correct and what was incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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1. cesarvarela ◴[22 Oct 25 17:52 UTC] No.45672724[source]▶
It is not OK, but if it's lower, it is an improvement.
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2. latexr ◴[22 Oct 25 17:57 UTC] No.45672806[source]▶
It can’t be lower. LLMs work on the text they’re given. The submission isn’t saying that LLMs misrepresent half of reality, but of the news content they consume. In other words, even if news sources have errors, LLMs are adding to them.