AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

If you dig into the actual report (I know, I know, how passe), you see how they get the numbers. Most of the errors are "sourcing issues": the AI assistant doesn't cite a claim, or it (shocking) cites Wikipedia instead of the BBC.

Other issues: the report doesn't even say which particular models it's querying [ETA: discovered they do list this in an appendix], aside from saying it's the consumer tier. And it leaves off Anthropic (in my experience, by far the best at this type of task), favoring Perplexity and (perplexingly) Copilot. The article also intermingles claims from the recent report and the one on research conducted a year ago, leaving out critical context that... things have changed.

This article contains significant issues.

I wouldn't even say BBC is a good source to cite. For foreign news, BBC is outright biased. Though I don't have any good suggestions for what an LLM should cite instead.

The BBC has a strong right wing bias within the UK too.

There’s no such thing as unbiased.

The BBC is famous for platforming Farage and smearing Corbyn.

The Guardian is at best centre-right.

Next you’ll try to convince me that Starmer’s Labour is left wing or the Lock Ness monster is real.

If this is an honest take, you probably have to look to the right to see Mao's ghost. Maybe talk to other humans in real life, you might be shocked about your actual place on the political spectrum.